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Re: About multitasking, what's best : AmigaOS, Linux, or Winblows XP ?
« Reply #14 from previous page: November 01, 2006, 08:13:23 PM »
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Since displaying genlocked video requires 0% CPU or system resources, I'd hardly call this AmigaOS feature.

Any OS with the equal HW could do this and provide equally good multitasking at the same time.
 

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Re: About multitasking, what's best : AmigaOS, Linux, or Winblows XP ?
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2006, 08:17:46 PM »
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Yet I haven't seen my Workbench (1.3) crashing.

It clearly means you must sell your Windows boxen and replace it with A500 running WB 1.3.

Or even better, replace it with C64 running GEOS. It has even less code that can have bugs.
 

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Re: About multitasking, what's best : AmigaOS, Linux, or Winblows XP ?
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2006, 09:04:54 AM »
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Which will be the MorphOS position if we include it on the poll?

MorphOS ABOX scheduler is similar to AOS one, however, it has plugin interface to allow finer control of rescheduling. By default it functions the same as AOS, that is simple round robin.
 

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Re: About multitasking, what's best : AmigaOS, Linux, or Winblows XP ?
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2006, 09:09:41 AM »
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In my opinion the free unices (Linux and the BSDs) is the most stable OSes for personal users

I agree 100%, being debian user. Windows isn't as horrible as it used to be, however.
 

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Re: About multitasking, what's best : AmigaOS, Linux, or Winblows XP ?
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2006, 10:03:06 AM »
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In AOS things like windows handling (moving, resizing, also redrawing in most apps) and basic gadgets handling is done by Intuition in its input handlers. ... This makes the AmigaOS multitasking to feel better.

Very true. But it also sucks if it is taken to extremes: Reaction does very complex rendering from within input.device task context at priority 20, blocking anything lower priority.
 

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Re: About multitasking, what's best : AmigaOS, Linux, or Winblows XP ?
« Reply #19 on: November 03, 2006, 05:34:49 PM »
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I wonder how responsive AmigaOS would be on a 7 MHz 68000 with memory protection?

68000 doesn't have MMU nor possibility to use external MMU 68851.

Thus 68000 can't have memory protection.
 

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Re: About multitasking, what's best : AmigaOS, Linux, or Winblows XP ?
« Reply #20 on: November 03, 2006, 06:22:40 PM »
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Yes, I know (didn't think twice before posting) but what if it was designed for 68010s with MMU instead (and virtual memory and memory protection capabilities) instead?

IIRC the 68010 couldn't use external MMU either, only 020 and later, but I could be wrong. 68010 did have some way to expand the memory map however (different pages, sort of).

However, if it would work, it'd be damned slow, as one can expect from 7Mhz chip (not to mention to ultraslow medium from that era, even SCSI sucked eggs...).