Invisible wrote:
> So what you're saying is that if hardware is complicated, it is 
> impossible to develop quality software?

Obviously not. But it's impossible to develop it for the same price in 
the same timeframe with the same quality.

>> Ha.  Compare what Windows XP does with your Amiga OS.  Think about 
>> hardware support, multi-processor support, multi-user support, 
>> multi-APIs for everything, wireless networking, and a million other 
>> things.
> 
> Why do we *need* multi-APIs for everything in the first place?

Because otherwise your older programs won't run. We need it because 
people don't give away the source for their commercial software.

> Leaving aside hardware [bad drivers can screw up any OS], what does 
> Windoze actually do that AmigaDOS doesn't? Well, let's see now. It has 
> networking. It's multi-user and has access permissions.

Remote desktop. USB. Networking. 3D accelerated graphics. Memory 
protection. Virtual memory. 64-bit OS support. Remote management. Access 
control policies. Performance monitoring. Clustered drives. RAID. 
Multi-OS boot. Support for about 63,417 different chunks of hardware.

> It... uh... no, 
> I'm struggling to think of anything else new it has. That seems to be 
> able it, really. (Unless you count IE as part of the OS.)

You're struggling to think of something *you* use.

> The point is, some bugs are more serious than others. Where I work, Word 
> is constantly crashing.

Aren't you the one that's still using 10-year-old Word97?

> Interesting. When I got my laptop, it crashed within 14 *seconds* of 
> being turned on.

One would think that would be either a misinstalled OS or a hardware 
problem.

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