From: linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville)
Subject: Re: Oh my God! Help my friend not buy an IBM!
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:42:15 GMT

In article <jbickers.0in6@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>Quoted from <1992Nov16.223302.6261@ncsu.edu> by linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville):
>
>> Finally, for those who devalue high processor speeds, try getting 30-40 back-
>> ground processes running and then tell me how well your Amiga compares to my
>> PC running OS/2.
>
>    What do you mean here? I've got 26 tasks going at the moment, and
>    none of them are extraordinary. I'm using a "remote shell", ie
>    I've dialled into a shell working through the serial port, so I've
>    not got a module player or a newsreader or an editor or other
>    stuff running (I had to quit out of the newsreader to get the
>    following list):
>
>    ------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------
>  1 A590/A2091 IORequest h  tw       11 00295CE0  1000    98  
>  2 A590/A2091 SCSI handle  tw       12 00299A00  1000    98  
>  3 CNX                     pw        5 003644B8  3200    94  
>  4 CON                     pw        5 00290CB8  3200    94  
>  5 console.device          tw        5 00287700  4096    90  
>  6 DF0                     pw       10 0028A0E8  2400   130  
>  7 DF1                     pw       10 0028CAB8  2400   130  
>  8 dh0:utils/smartdisk sc  bw   3    0 002BEDC0 20000   270  
>  9 DH0                     pw       10 0029B0D8  2400   130  
> 10 fast                    pw       10 002A0E08  2400   130  
> 11 getty -B19200 -A -7 -M  bw   4    0 003136F0 20000   478  
> 12 input.device            tw       20 00283492  4096    86  
> 13 JDMouse                 pw        1 002C04F0  2048   156  
> 14 misc                    pw       10 002A6A70  2400   130  
> 15 NULL                    pw        5 002F7D40   500   158  
> 16 PATH                    pw       10 0031B5F8  4000    98  
> 17 PowerSnap-Handler       bw   2    5 002ECE88  4000   110  
> 18 ramlib                  pw        0 0028F3B8  2048   262  
> 19 RAM                     pw       10 00294FD8  1200   678  
> 20 report                  cr   6    0 0037A4A0 20000   386  
> 21 RexxMaster              pw        4 002AD1A0  2048   162  
> 22 trackdisk.device        tw        5 00287F44   512    98  
> 23 trackdisk.device        tw        5 0028F144   512    98  
> 24 watchcd                 bw   5    0 00378908 20000   166  
> 25 WSH_Completer_V2        pw        4 002C1670 10748   886  
> 26  no command           cw   1    0 002D36C0  4800  2690  
>    ------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------

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

>    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.

John W. Linville



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