IBM & Apple Bed Partners
17-Jul-91 11:02:57
Sb: #29012-IBM & Apple Bed Partners
Fm: Timothy Shaw 70046,10
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
I think Commodore would rather add device independent graphics than memory
protection, but can't do it very easily for the same reasons. IMHO,
Commodore does not need memory protection because of the structure of the
operating system. The message passing by reference would have to be
changed substantially which probably negatively affect system performance.
With the new enforcer and memoration tools, software developers can test
their software at low memory conditions for run away pointers and track
them down quickly. With the release of AmigaDos 2.04, I think we are going
to see much more robust software applications released. I like to think of
AmigaDos 1.1,1.2, and 1.3 as Beta releases. AmigaDos 2.04 is orders of
magnitude more stable than previous releases.
Tim