[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 victor # on 30-Nov-2001 18:52 GMT | In reply to Comment 61 (Anonymous): Dear Anonymus,
I'm a programmer and hardware designer also for Amiga OS+HW.
It seems you think the Amiga is some MAGIC BOX that do IMPOSSIBLE things. Like to REALLY execute several codes REALLY at the SAME TIME on ONLY ONE CPU.
The Amiga OS has some method termed (in Computer Science) "preemptive multitasking". IT BY DEFINITION MEANS *ONE* KIND OF TIME SLICING, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T OTHERWAYS EXECUTE SEVERAL PROGRAMS *LIKE IF THEY WERE* EXECUTED PARALELLY.
It's true that certain (older) OS'es can't do preeptive multitasking (but only cooperative), but neither they claims they can. They claim they do cooperative multitasking, and who knows the difference knows if it bad or not. (Of course, it is bad.)
Well, there ARE now also other OS'es that do preemptive multitasking, like it or not. IT DOES NOT DEPEND ON THE CPU. It's true that some CPU's are more "optimized" for it (but only through their addressing modes), but it only affects code-size. (Of course, *besides to it*, an OS can be more or less usable, friendly, smart, etc.)
I think most people here has more or less deep technical knowledge in computers, EXCLUDING YOU. It's YOU who know nothing and belive in bullshit just because OTHERS told you so. It's YOUR BLIND FAITH is that makes others think the Amiga-community is a bunch of stupid fanatics, which most of them are not. |
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