Amiga stability?

[bbond007]

When they claim "lack of stability" do they mean hardware or software wise?

The fact that the Amiga implemented a preemptive multitasking system without a memory protection scheme just means that you have more moving parts that can potentially conflict with each other. If you were to refrain from running multiple applications contemporaneously, then I suspect that the stability would be more-or-less the same on both platforms.

I can't comment on the Atari vs Amiga hardware wise having never owned one. I do know that Commodore were plagued with some hardware issues from time to time.

[bbond007]

Really, crazily enough, if you want stability in older computers, you just can't beat DOS.

DOS OK as long as you only wanted to address a total 1MB or ram one 64K segment at a time.

Once you tried to address over 1MB of ram through various extended and expended memory schemes, or enter "386" 32bit mode stability went out the window. Those memory managers were massively temperamental when trying to optimize your valuable "conventional" RAM.

If you want to real treat, you could add in a splash of multitasking with various DOS extenders like Desqview windows 3X I can't imagine Amiga being any less stable than that mess

[bbond007]

Good one!

The two times in my life I briefly had an ST (520 & 1040), separated by about 10 years, I remember seeing those damn bombs piling up way more often than I thought they had a right to. And I was hardly a power user.

I remember one computer lab in HS filled with Macs. All I had to do was enter that room and 3 or 4 of those machines would get those little bombs...

DING!

[bbond007]

According to Wikipedia, that's only true for KS1.2/1.3 systems, 2.0 and later separated Workbench out to a library file on disk. Still, it is true that Kickstart is a whole lot of the system software (Old World Macs also did this, with the Toolbox ROM holding a lot of the fundamental OS code.)

Who wrote that Wikipedia? That is just plain wrong....

I workbench.library still in my 1200s 3.1 ROM.

I do know that it is one library you can remove to make room for other stuff. I was experimenting with doing this with Remus.

Maybe that is something specific to the 4000.