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

[Damion]

stopthegop wrote:

In Linux and Windows you can kill process at will

haha!  Welcome to Fantasy Island.  That works like maybetwo times out of ten.   Its almost always a reboot.  If I had a dime for every time I've had to reboot windoze I could retire rich, about 10 times over.  

Hmmm... maybe a hardware issue? I shut down errant processes all the time, and aside from the occasional momentary hang, it's fine. Come to think of it, I don't think I've had to reboot windows due to a (software) crash in years.



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MacOS X on the other hand, is a completely different issue. I've managed to crash it many, many times (mostly buggy apps like Safari)... of course, it may have gotten better in the last year since I gave up on it.

[Damion]

stopthegop wrote:

Hmmm... maybe a hardware issue? I shut down errant processes all the time, and aside from the occasional momentary hang, it's fine. Come to think of it, I don't think I've had to reboot windows due to a (software) crash in years.

Congratulations.  You own the only reliable Wintel box on Planet Earth.  I'm not talking about just one box that I own, I'm talking about literally thousands of different servers and workstations that I've worked on.  I do Field support work (15+ yrs) for a very well know storage systems company -- robotic tape libraries, disk arrays, etc..  In my experience, when customers report hardware problems (tape drives not being recognized, LUN mapping problems, unable to initialize robotics, unknown path to host, storage unit unavailable, etc, etc, etc...).  I could go on for days..  But the problem is almost always software, in spite of what Microsoft or anyone else says.  My experience is mostly with Veritas (sorry, Symantec) NetBackup,  Legato, Tivoli TSM, Comvault, BackupExec, Amanda, and some non-public proprietary storage applications.  Netbackup on a lean unix box is the best of many bad choices (read: windoze/linux).  

Well dude I'm not saying Windows is flawless, or that I love it, but what I am saying is that in my experience, if it's setup properly and maintained on good hardware it's a pretty stable OS... I don't think it's a fantastic multitasking OS, but as far as handling errant programs it's leagues better than Amiga OS (and Mac OSX, IMO). I don't work in the industry per se, but I maintain all of our work machines as well as constantly setting up various builds for friends and family, and no one I know is having continuous crashes and reboots unless there's a software configuration problem or hardware failure. Personally I spend about 99% of my time using my PCs and maybe 1% fixing problems. Obviously, as a tech, you will be dealing with problems all day, but it's kind of along the lines of the "if the Ford garage is full of Fords does that mean Ford is a bad car" analogy...  On the other hand, I don't see any reason why your home rig should be rebooting and crashing all the time unless there's a problem somewhere, beacause "by nature" Windows just isn't THAT bad.


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Come to think of it, in the five or six months since I setup the new rigs at work, there hasn't been ONE crash or reboot yet.
 

[Damion]

stopthegop wrote:

Well dude I'm not saying Windows is flawless, or that I love it, but what I am saying is that in my experience, if it's setup properly and maintained on good hardware it's a pretty stable OS... I don't think it's a fantastic multitasking OS, but as far as handling errant programs it's leagues better than Amiga OS (and Mac OSX, IMO). I don't work in the industry per se, but I maintain all of our work machines as well as constantly setting up various builds for friends and family, and no one I know is having continuous crashes and reboots unless there's a software configuration problem or hardware failure. Personally I spend about 99% of my time using my PCs and maybe 1% fixing problems. Obviously, as a tech, you will be dealing with problems all day, but it's kind of along the lines of the "if the Ford garage is full of Fords does that mean Ford is a bad car" analogy... On the other hand, I don't see any reason why your home rig should be rebooting and crashing all the time unless there's a problem somewhere, beacause "by nature" Windows just isn't THAT bad.

You're right about garage analogy.  Its a good point.  I'll be the first to admit a personal bias against Windows simply because I have to live with it and all its nuances and flaws for 50-70 hours per week -- flaws which tend to be minor in a home environment but which can have a huge impact in a production server environment and just drive one to drink.  When I get home, the last thing in the world I want to see is a PC.  My Amigas are my sanctuary so forgive me if I get a little defensive about what the OS can and can't do, etc..    

LOL, no worries :pint:  I'm the same way, the LAST thing I want to think about in my free time is anything work related. (And BTW, I certainly don't envy your job. It WOULD drive me to drink.) Amigas (and lately the old 8-bitters) are a bit medicinal for me too. Lots of fun.