About multitasking, what's best : AmigaOS, Linux, or Winblows XP ?

[chsedge]

just to report what piru said at first (and to me seems one of few persons that knows what we are talking about)...


1. Linux

New 2.6 kernels have nice nice O(1) scheduler and kernel pre-emption.

2. Mac OS X

BSD scheduler basically, tried and tested solution.

3. Windows

I have no firm details how windows scheduler works, but I believe it's BSD variant, or at least acts very close to it.

4. AmigaOS

Very limited and aged round robin scheduler. Only pre-Windows 95 and classic Mac OS are worse.

[chsedge]

For me the question posed in this topic requires answers only from coders, and the ones who at least had been through an operating systems exam at university or have studied how to build an os...
comments from user perspective on the multitasking are useless as wikipedia (we can start a topic about wikipedia too)


ps:
anyway I'm the lucky owner of the second wintel stable system in the world, just running xp since 2003 with no reinstall and no crashes on an 'old' celeron.

[chsedge]

so if the amiga crashes is the user's fault. if happens on the pc is only windows xp fault. then you're talking about a imaginary computer that's in your head and you're sure that this dreamy amiga would run application (which ones then, today or 85's apps) better (obviously it will be surely more efficient) than xp, mac, linux.
it's so bad that today at a lower cost you can have better technology, but it's so useless because if surely there's a way to do it better.

Let's say Windows XP, MAC, Linux are reality. AMIGA is today a concept, an idea...

Today applications require much more than 20 years ago, there are new things involved with the inner working of a PC that simply didn't existed back in 80's or 90's, and that Amiga don't have.

In terms of elegance, are you a OS designer, do you know how an OS works? Have you written or do you know an OS that performs tasks better than Linux, XP or MAC (I'm talking about real OS that runs today applications in the todays' environment)?

Yes your 10 month PC is obsolete, the AMIGA obviously not. The AMIGA is the only computer that will never be obsolete...