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Rest assured the Amiga crashed plenty too.

• JKCalhoun 2y ago
  Yeah, but the whole machine needing to be rebooted?
  • snvzz 2y ago
    Often times auto-rebooting and showing a guru meditation. AmigaOS 1.0 was a disaster, 1.1 much better, 1.2 and 1.3 seldom if ever crashed. 2.0+ changed a lot... would be AmigaOS's own "system 7".
  • icedchai 2y ago
    I remember there being "recoverable" errors in later versions of the OS. But if you got a "Guru Meditation" you were almost always done. With newer machines (68020+ w/MMU) you could protect the first page of memory which helped ("Enforcer" was the name of the program, I think.)
  • KerrAvon 2y ago
    Yes. It had an ugly UI and preemptive multitasking, but it didn't have memory protection and -- unlike MultiFinder -- didn't clean up after apps for certain resources, so you'd eventually need to reboot to get those resources back even if your system remained stable.
    • icedchai 2y ago
      The UI in Amiga OS 2.0 was a huge improvement... It felt like night and day! Earlier versions were definitely pretty bad looking.
      • snvzz 2y ago
        They were. Of course, we still loved them. And the nostalgia, now.
        • icedchai 2y ago
          Yes. I still dream of an alternate universe where Commodore survived. Perhaps we'd all be using Amiga Unix instead of MacOS.
  • II2II 2y ago
    Yes. The basic problem with those old home computer operating systems was the lack of memory protection. Any program could overwrite the memory of any other program, or even vital components of the operating system. While memory protection was touted as a huge improvement for end users, its actual benefit was to developers. Just try to debugging memory issues in the application's own address space. Now try to imagine doing the same, where your only hints of a problem is someone else's code crashing because of memory you inadvertently overwrote.