Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> I didn't realise there were *any*? 

Go look at the author information in the hardware manager.

> What I can do is get a graph of various things like number of processes 
> running, CPU usage per process, memory per process, memory free, etc.

I.e., performance information from one program, namely the scheduler. 
Not all that helpful in the real world.

> Integrating that with performance data from other apps? Well, that would 
> require the other apps to supply performance data.

Yep. And MS has an interface in the OS for doing that that everyone 
uses, and therefore it is available. Because it's damn useful in the 
real world.

> And some ARexx 
> scripting to link them together. And by the time you get there, you 
> might as well write the monitoring app yourself, at which point it 
> ceases to be about what the "OS" can do.

Monitoring app? What app are you going to write that's going to tell you 
the queries per second that the SQL server is using, and whether its 
disk I/Os are for indexes or data?

>> Fair enough. I haven't really used an Amiga since the 1000/500 days. 
>> Who is selling it nowadays?
> 
> Selling it? Heh. Last I heard [long time ago], "Amiga" is a 
> software-only company now. No, I have no idea how the hell that makes 
> any sense... IIRC, AmigaOS was ported to PPC or something. Whatever.

Ah, cool.

> The hardware hasn't been on sale for a while now, AFAIK. But then, would 
> *you* buy a "personal computer" powered by a 20 MHz 68030 with 2 MB RAM?

Maybe. Is the OLPC any more powerful?

>> If the file is corrupt on the disk, and a later update replaces that 
>> file, I'd expect that would fix it, yah.
> 
> Mmm, I guess. However, given how much everybody complained about XP 
> crashing when it first came out, and it's not *as bad* today, I think 
> it's a case of M$ actually fixing some of the more serious bugs...

Well, yeah. Hundreds. :)

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