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Re: Amiga envy
« on: June 28, 2009, 07:23:25 PM »
Quote from: Karlos;513741
@mlankton
 
None of the amiga family of operating systems have unix-like stability. It isn't so much the OS most of the time as naughty apps. The lack of protected memory is the main problem. It's too easy to bring down the system if you trash memory.

I remember that as a kid I found it amusing to write AmigaBASIC programs to Guru the Amiga. They went something along these lines:
 
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FOR I = 0 to 1000000
   POKEL(I, I)
NEXT I
Goes to show how easy it is to bring the system down. Yet it was fun at the time.
 
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« Last Edit: June 28, 2009, 07:24:43 PM by wolfchild »
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