Darren New wrote:

>> [Assuming it does all this through the OS. The Big Problem the Amiga 
>> had is that since the hardware is "always" the same, a lot of software 
>> bypasses the OS. Obviously this breaks horribly when the hardware 
>> changes...]
> 
> Yep. On the other hand, the original Amiga books described how to frob 
> the hardware.
> 
> Note that Windows supports DOS programs that bypass the OS in exactly 
> the same way, and it WORKS.

The PC has the hardware necessary to do this with sane performance 
levels. The Amiga didn't.

>> So Windows is designed to do a bunch of unecessary stuff in the 
>> background by default. I consider this a design flaw. What *useful* 
>> stuff does Windows do that AmigaDOS doesn't?
> 
> It depends who you are. Aren't you the one complaining about lack of USB 
> support in your NT machines?

OK, so USB support goes into the list of useful things Windows can do 
that AmigaDOS can't.

>> If there were anything I could do to find out, I'd do it. 
>> Unfortunately, there isn't.
> 
> There's lots you can do. You just don't know how. That's why they give 
> you the stack dump and such.  "Wow, if only I could read a core file, 
> I'd be able to tell which program is dumping core!" :-)

Only hyper-nerds are going to be able to get anything remotely useful 
out of a dump file. To everybody else, it's just wasted disk space.

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