Julian Aronowitz said...
> The second. For whatever reason, the Amiga will not let you know
> when you are running so low on Chip RAM that the machine can crash.
> This is an inherent problem with the Amiga, itself, not with browsers
Hm, this is not entirely true. :-/ Lack of chipram causing crashes
is something which is seen with many programs, I will agree, and we
see it because chipram is so easy to run out of. However, the Amiga
OS will not crash "because it runs out of chipram", but because
somebody hasn't coded correctly for that situation. (This includes
some parts of the OS itself.)
As anyone who knows how to code for the Miggy will tell you, you "ask
for" memory and then you may or may not get it. In principle, the code
should gracefully fail if it didn't get what it wants, but in practise
it is not always very easy to do that when you have very complex,
multi-threaded, interdependent pieces of code running. Errors can,
and do, happen. Quite often, though, this sort of error is due to
some low-level graphical patch a user may be running, which makes the
lazy assumption that it "cannot fail" to allocate the tiny amount of
ram it needs...
Cheers,
Ian
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