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

[KThunder]

the only os ive never run extensively is macos- classic or osx. and i have programed for several systems, including dos, windows 9x and  (very little) linux.

the best, smoothest, most capable, and most flexible preemptively multitasking system i have ever used is os/2 warp 3 and 4.  i used warp for at ibm for quite a while, and warp 3 on my own personal machines.

i have never seen a warp machine crash, im sure they do but ive put several through torture and they never blinked.

i have preemptively multitasked, dos, windows3.x and os2 programs simultaniously with no slowdown and no comflicts even with the occasional dos hack crash.

fine tuning how you want specific programs to work makes it even better, and os/2 has an interprocess com like amigaos called rexx

so does any of that matter, do i run os/2 because it is so smooth and stable, no i use windows9x and xp. why?

because i use an os to run programs i dont run a computer just to run some really cool os. windows has better support than any other os both from ms and 3rd party.

[KThunder]

   system resources and resource usage is a circular type of thing. the more you have the more you want etc.
  and that goes for developers too. back when the pc first came out i believe it was bill gates who said who would ever need 640k or something like that. at the same time there were probably programmers thinking i know what i could do with 640k.
   an os designed for todays hardware that was designed to be small and efficient would be great. but to do what we do with computers today you would have to add so many 3rd party apps it would be as large as xp. but it wouldnt be made by one developer so it would be a mess.

[KThunder]

also depends on how you define obsolete.
i never liked the term personally
of course i have an amiga 3000 and an athlon classic both of which get much more use than the pIV mobo gathering dust on a shelf.