From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Oh my God! Help my friend not buy an IBM!
Date: 21 Nov 92 17:10:02 GMT
 <jbickers.0in6@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Nov18.164215.3212@ncsu.edu>
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <1992Nov18.164215.3212@ncsu.edu> by linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville):

> OH MY GOD!!!  You mean, you people objected to my counting editors and drawing
> programs, yet you are going to count the 'NULL' device and other device drivers

    I didn't (object to your counting editors and drawing programs). I
    _could_ go to the trouble of starting up all these programs...

    ------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------
  1 A590/A2091 IORequest h  tw       11 00295CE0  1000    98  
  2 A590/A2091 SCSI handle  tw       12 00299A00  1000    98  
  3 ARexx                   pw        0 003E6EC0  4096   422  
  4 ARexx                   pw        0 00400020  4096   422  
  5 console.device          tw        5 00287700  4096    90  
  6 CON                     pw        5 00290CB8  3200    94  
  7 DF0                     pw       10 0028A0E8  2400   130  
  8 DF1                     pw       10 0028CAB8  2400   130  
  9 dh0:utils/smartdisk sc  bw   3    0 002BE950 20000   270  
 10 DH0                     pw       10 0029B0D8  2400   130  
 11 fast                    pw       10 002A0E08  2400   130  
 12 input.device            tw       20 00283492  4096    86  
 13 JDMouse                 pw        1 002BFEC0  2048   156  
 14 MicroEMACS tmp:tnews-p  cw   6    1 00402120 20000   526  
 15 MicroEMACS              bw   7    1 0049DCC0 20000   526  
 16 MicroEMACS              bw   8    1 004C4EF0 20000   526  
 17 MicroEMACS              bw   9    1 004EC228 20000   526  
 18 MicroEMACS              bw  10    1 005138D0 20000   526  
 19 MicroEMACS              bw  11    1 0053B380 20000   526  
 20 MicroEMACS              bw  12    1 005627C0 20000   526  
 21 MicroEMACS              bw  13    1 00589E58 20000   526  
 22 MicroEMACS              bw  14    1 005B14C8 20000   526  
 23 MicroEMACS              bw  15    1 005DB2D0 20000   526  
 24 MicroEMACS              bw  16    1 00604DE8 20000   526  
 25 MicroEMACS              bw  17    1 0062C480 20000   526  
 26 MicroEMACS              bw  18    1 005D97D0 20000   526  
 27 MicroEMACS              bw  19    1 00679440 20000   526  
 28 MicroEMACS              bw  20    1 006A0900 20000   526  
 29 MicroEMACS              bw  21    1 006C7FA8 20000   526  
 30 MicroEMACS              bw  22    1 006EFC20 20000   526  
 31 MicroEMACS              bw  23    1 00716D40 20000   526  
 32 MicroEMACS              bw  24    1 0073E7C8 20000   526  
 33 MicroEMACS              bw  25    1 00765E40 20000   526  
 34 misc                    pw       10 002A6A70  2400   130  
 35 MultiPlayer             pw        1 007A99E0  4096   142  
 36 PATH                    pw       10 0031B170  4000    98  
 37 PowerSnap-Handler       bw   2    5 002EC858  4000   110  
 38 ramlib                  pw        0 0028F3B8  2048   262  
 39 RAM                     pw       10 00294FD8  1200   678  
 40 report                  cr   1    0 002D3090 20000   386  
 41 RexxMaster              pw        4 002AD070  2048   162  
 42 tnews -e0               bw   5    0 003F5AA8 20000  1390  
 43 trackdisk.device        tw        5 00287F44   512    98  
 44 trackdisk.device        tw        5 0028F144   512    98  
 45 Virus_Checker(C)        pw       19 0038C758  4000    86  
 46 vlt                     bw   4    2 0034A830 20000  1254  
 47 WSH_Completer_V2        pw        4 002C1040 10748   886  
    ------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------

> as running processes!!!  Give me a damned break!

    They _are_ running tasks. Context switches and all when they get
    used.

> >    Are you trying to say OS/2 can't do this, or what?
> 
> Just the opposite.  I was saying that everytime I had seen an Amiga get more
> than 15-20 real programs loaded, that it had practically died.

    Then whoever was doing the loading was a fool.

> John W. Linville
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