[News] Cloanto critisize AmigaXL marketing | ANN.lu |
Posted on 29-Nov-2001 01:16 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 82 comments View flat View list |
Cloanto stated their opinion about AmigaXL marketing, which they feel has been misleading. They also released a comparison of Amiga Forever and "other solutions".
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Posted by Graham on 29-Nov-2001 16:16 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 (JW): This is 2001 now, not 1991 with Windows 3.1, which had very poor multitasking (as you described).
2000 and XP have proper multitasking (hell, Windows 95 did if you didn't run any 16-bit code, which was practically impossible at the time). Linux doesn't do preemptive multitasking though, unless you use the preemptive multitasking kernel patch. MacOSX has proper preemptive multitasking as well, after 16 years of cooperative multitasking nastiness (which worked well for most users though, it has to be argued).
The only way that you can say that UAE is not multitasking truely is because it is running as a single task on top of another OS. But inside that task, the emulated Amiga believes it is multitasking just fine - the emulation is providing the virtual hardware upon which the Amiga is running.
Anyway, the point is that hardware does not stop you from writing a multitasking operating system. They exist on the C64! Sure, these ones are usually simple round-robin or cooperative multitasking systems, but you can't blame them when you have so little resourse! |
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