Samuar wrote: ... My concern is that I am studying Computer Science at UMIST, Manchester, U.K. - the Computation Dept. of which is rated highly - and I have not heard the word "Amiga" uttered once. I find that sad and daunting. ...
Why would your curriculum mention the name Amiga anywhere? It could perhaps be mentioned as an example of the efficiency of doing without virtual memory spaces: the performance on (by today's standards) mediocre hardware is sufficient testimony of that. Other that that, all the features of a multitasking OS (scheduling, messaging, signalling, deadlocks, ...) are present in something like Linux, Minix, Windows, and the Lord knows what else too. And they come with the added bonus of having a working implementation of a VM subsystem ;-). Bottom line: if you know how an Amiga handles things, you know how another OS handles it, and vice versa.
