wagner@utcs.uucp (Michael Wagner) (05/12/86)
In article <50200012@uokvax.UUCP> emjej@uokvax.UUCP writes: > >Messages on CIS from folks at MicroTRENDS, the company marketing OS-9 >for the 520ST, say that OS-9 for the Amiga should follow shortly. (One >wonders what the presence of a true multitasking OS on the ST will >do to Amiga sales.) > > James Jones My impressions, from working with the AMIGA (and RS OS9) is that it takes much more than a multi-tasking OS to make a multi-tasking *system*. Any OS which (for politeness) allows an application to take over the machine will be subject to stupid developers who make the decision (for the user) and turn the machine back into a single-application box while their program is running. I'm not sure what the solution is to this sort of polution. But it sure does cripple the future of the machine when programs are allowed to do this (I don't just mean the future till the machine is booted..I mean the future sales of the machine). When a machine is sold as multi-tasking, people build up certain expectations of what they are going to be able to do (bring up new windows, etc) at any time. They will be very disappointed to find out that most of the applications they run will prevent them from doing this. They won't understand that it's the applications that are pissing in the pot...they'll just understand that "the AMIGA doesn't multitask very well". Michael Wagner (wagner@utcs)