On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:26:10AM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote: > [grr, list software hare] > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:43:47PM +0000, Matthew King wrote: > [...] > > For its time (and with the rose-tinted goggles of hindsight) I can find > > very little to practically hate about Risc OS and its ancestors. > > Compared to the Amiga, it lacked co-operative multitasking and backing store > for overlaid windows, requiring the application to manage repaints. RiscOS > seemed to be little more than a BBC B with some AMX software and mouse, and > a rocket up its arse. AmigaOS much more resembled a "real" (i.e. Unix-like) > OS under the hood.
Except, as I understand it, AmigaOS didn't have memory protection. Whereas RISC OS did. At least between tasks, even if zero page and every other bit of useful memory was yours to trample on. Nicholas Clark
