-=> On 08-11-22 12:19, Jared wrote to Daryl Stout <=-
Ja> DESQView and DOS 5 and while originally RA later Ezy was the pinacle of
Ja> my 90s board time and ran Oglaroon (my original BBS name) for years,
My journey started with RA on DOS, then DOS/QEMM/DV, and finally OS/2, which I
totally loved.
Ja> but I have to say nothing ever came close to the pre-emptive
Ja> multitasking of my beloved Amiga 500.. not for many years. :D
The Amiga was way ahead of its time with smooth multitasking and hardware
acceleration that was unheard of at the time. The OS wasn't bad, though
predating modern security concerns, it was prone to viruses and DoS.
A friend had an A1000 in the mid 80s. loved it and used to talk about the
viruses that were around. A bit later, I used to work on an A2000 with a
PC/286 card. I got that machine, because no one else knew how to use it.
While the DOS side was for work, I did play with the Amiga side in my downtime,
or while waiting for a PCB design to autorpute. Along the way, I found a file
(probably on some BBS or newsgroup) that described countless ways to bring on a
"Guru Meditation" - what would be called DoS today. From memory, the easiest
one was simply to issue the command "run run", which I think corrupted the
stack.
Mind you, at the same time (and considerably later), DOS had some clangers as
well, like attempting to access the file "CLOCK$" on a DOS machine would crash
it (that's a reserved device name). Same for Windows up to at least Windows 95
(e.g. start -> run -> \\target\con\con to remotely crash a Windows 95 machine
with file sharing enabled).
... Sow your wild oats on Saturday night, then on Sunday pray for crop failure
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