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Re: A history of the Amiga, part 4: Enter Commodore
Posted on 22-Oct-2007 17:29:42
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| As usual Jeremy's coverage is excellent.
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Re: A history of the Amiga, part 4: Enter Commodore
Posted on 22-Oct-2007 22:48:20
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| Ditto. Amiga history as I never read it before. I'm eagerly waiting for the next part.
Saluditos,
Ferrán.
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Re: A history of the Amiga, part 4: Enter Commodore
Posted on 22-Oct-2007 22:54:09
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| Another excellent coverage. 
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Re: A history of the Amiga, part 4: Enter Commodore
Posted on 23-Oct-2007 1:26:15
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| I want to see Rogue's reaction to this:
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| The operating system also lacked resource tracking, which hurt the overall stability of the system. This oversight had repercussions that remain to this day: the very latest PowerPC-compiled version of AmigaOS will still sometimes fail to free up all resources when a program crashes. |
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Re: A history of the Amiga, part 4: Enter Commodore
Posted on 23-Oct-2007 7:24:13
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| Windows are some of the resources that won't be cleaned up when a program crashes. Anyone who's actually run OS4 knows that. |
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Re: A history of the Amiga, part 4: Enter Commodore
Posted on 26-Oct-2007 3:24:52
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| Excuse me, but I know that it exists tools to kill the winodws left open by crashed programs...
(KillWin and Exorcist)
Well... these tools close the windows in AmigaOS...
But my question is:
Are these tools capable to also to free the allocated resources used by the system to keep these windows open?
Or perhaps these tools get the windows closed but the system keeps in use the memory allocated for the window, and the related libraries, and do not let it free?
Just a curiosity! 
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Re: A history of the Amiga, part 4: Enter Commodore
Posted on 29-Oct-2007 18:43:18
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| Great articles...
Thanks, Jeremy.
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