What still makes Amiga superior today?

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spirantho wrote:
Tiny point about multitasking:

Windows got multitasking of a kind with '95 but it wasn't pre-emptive. Before that it was just task swapping. NT was pre-emptive I think.

I thought Win'95 also had pre-emptive multi-tasking, e.g. the programs did not have to use special statements to allow task switching. But the drivers and the shell could lock up the machine quite often as they were not clearly divided from the user (as is actually the case on Amiga). This improved much in NT, mostly by forcing the use of updated drivers.
Also a lot of games on amiga just disabled the multi-tasking but this does not mean the OS did not support pre-emptive multitasking.

greets,
Staf.

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stefcep2 wrote:

5.  Ah but there is pre-emptive multitasking and there is pre-emptive multitasking.  It depends on the scheduler.  linux's implementation is rubbish for desktops: read this  http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm

Please don't take this rant of a frustrated kernel developer as thruth. I play music all the time on my centos 4.7 box with a PIV 1.7GHz without any hick ups, even when two or three program are taking all the CPU time they can.

greets,
Staf.