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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 19:20:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.std.com>
Subject: Re: Gem Listing (fwd)
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <memo.595168@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9407081926.A6301-0100000@undergrad>
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Precedence: bulk
Ofir:
]MagiC works regardless of TOS nationality because it replaces TOS
]completely. Get your facts right. It has more of a future than Geneva IMO.
]Because it replaces TOS there's much more work to do on the Falcon, new
]XBIOS as well as lots of new AES calls. It's faster and more reliable than
]ANY of the competition.
You're forgetting one VITALLY important thing about Atari computers. TOS
on ROM is one of the major reasons why Atari's waste so little RAM on the
operating system.
Not to mention booting time.
]Sorry, I didn't mean that you will drop Geneva, but simply the size of
]yopur potential market compared the MagiC will _probably_ mean that MagiC
]is more accepted than Geneva. I am free to make up my own mind. I have
]MTOS, Geneva and MagiC, so I had a chance to try them all and my personal
]choice is MagiC.
Wrong again. The majority of us like small, fast, compact operating
systems that don't waste precious RAM on the operating system. Geneva
adds functionality to the existing OS, thereby saving a lot of RAM.
Sure, you could speed things up by replaceing BIOS, etc, but the smaller
size of Geneva FAR outweighs the speed increase you'd get from replacing
the whole OS.
MagiC violates that by replacing things that don't need to be replaced,
puts the OS in RAM, and brings it down to the level of DOS, Windows, and
System 7 that require HUGE amounts of system resouces just for the OS.
For a LONG time, computer scientists were talking about how an OS should
not require excessive system resources... until UNIX and Windows NT came
along.
Of course, I'm sure Geneva could do with its own good preemptive
multitasking kernel controlled by its already good use of the cooperative OS.
My vote didn't work, and I did not get further explanation of how to make
my vote on Ctrl-A. Could someone reiterate what I have to email?