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I mean the windows. An app can open a window and hold it there, and meanwhile you can't move the window, you can't move it to the back and you can't minimise it
by Findecanor 1y ago
I mean the windows. An app can open a window and hold it there, and meanwhile you can't move the window, you can't move it to the back and you can't minimise it.
- jchw 1y agoOh I see. I'm not familiar with the model used by Workbench and how it differs exactly. (edit: and to be clear, I did read the article and see what it said, but without more detail I'm not 100% sure what it really looks like in practice, and why it would be less likely for applications to have situations where they become unresponsive.)
- orionblastar 1y agoAmiga computers are expensive these days, you are better off with an Amiga Emulator like Amiga Forever. I remember the Amiga had the checkered beach ball bouncing demo and others copied it, then on the Amiga they opened up several copies of the demo all multitasking and bouncing at the same time. The only downside of the Amiga was the dreaded Guru Meditation Errors when memory went corrupt or something. IIRC AmigaDOS/Workbench had no protected memory features.
- zozbot234 1y ago> IIRC AmigaDOS/Workbench had no protected memory features. This was a limitation of the original MC68k CPU architecture. Though the Amiga operating system was indeed designed to leverage a single address space throughout, which made it significantly harder to retrofit memory protection after the fact.