At 2007-06-05 14:40, you wrote: >On 6/5/07, Alan Bourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan Olsson wrote: > > > and still there is no OS that can multitask as well as it could > > > > Er ... is this the Amiga OS running on 68000-series chips? With > no memory protection? Meaning that a misbehaved program could take > down the entire system? ;)
I did not say it was perfect :) only much better than any existing OS:s at the time. If it wasn't for bad marketing from Commodore... BTW, does that sound familiar? Great product - bad marketing? >Hence the "Guru Meditation Errors" - unrecoverable GPFs. Few and far >between, but nasty when they happen. But it also (if that's reason) had some advantages, you could as an example make a bootable ramdisk so you needed only to load systemfiles after a cold start. The ramdisk survived soft reboots so the next time you could boot up entirely from memory - pretty slick :) ****************************** * Dan Olsson * <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * <http://www.dolittle.se> _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
