AmigaOS 4.1 Questions from a complete noob....

[Pat the Cat]

If you have 2gigs of memory or more on the x5000 no swap partition is needed.

Sounds sensible enough, but I guess if you are running really big apps, a swap area for memory becomes necessary.

I guess if you never used an Amiga in the first place, X5000 is a whole load of fun. What a place to start!

[Pat the Cat]

Not really.. but you can close the crashed program's window with a utility like Exorcist.

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=utility/misc/exorcist.lha

I understand that is one of the big advantages of V4 Amiga. You can more reliably shut down out of control software, unlike classic OS 3.9 and earlier, where sometimes you could, and sometimes, you couldn't. All classic OS has that kind of issue, and so does most Classic hardware. OK, most classic hardware you just soft reset or maybe power off too and try a different program. Different era of hardware.

What's also nice is, the software doesn't just load and execute in the first place, it's kind of assessed for compatibility with resources before it's executed. It doesn't just blindly expect everything to be loaded in the right place and ready to go.