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From: afoster@ogccse.ogc.edu (Allan Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disklock
Keywords: security, hard disk, locking
Message-ID: <4669@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 89 00:13:35 GMT
References: <12133@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <13506@well.UUCP> <1573@draken.nada.kth.se> <13517@well.UUCP> <1581@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: afoster@ogccse.UUCP (Allan Foster)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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In article <1581@draken.nada.kth.se> h+@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>In article <13517@well.UUCP> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>
>>	Sure I've heard of system crashes - though I try to write software
>>that doesn't do that too frequently!  But when it happens, my Mac REBOOTS! I
>>don't know about you (I am sure very few people do, or want to) but I don't
>
>Of course, my crashes may be spectacular. They wreck havoc in my System
>Resource Fork, making the Mac unable to boot from that disk. But then It's
>REAl safe :-) (Unless someone comes along with a system disk...)
>
>I also write:
>>>So, APPLE, why don't you run along and give us protected memory ? Huh ?
>
>>Why don't you find another forum for your protected memory flambe. You
>
>Because I want it, and I want it NOW ! Apple has all the source for the
>system, so they're in a far better position than I am to write that piece
>of software. And I'm gonna make REALLY sure that this is gonna be their
>prime goal for system 7.0.1 ! ,-)

Really?  I am not sure that I would like protected memory in 7.0.1 since that
means to be effective all my current software will break.  Not only the stuff
that I have written but most of the stuff I have purchased as well.

To have a memory protection system that is worth its salt, you would have to
protect the system heap.  Since most glue for current dev systems write
directly into the system heap.

Protected memory is something that Apple has Stated publicly that they are 
working on.  I would rather they spent the time on it aqnd did it RIGHT not
as a KLUDGE that does not do what is needed!

Waiting for properly implemented protected memory!~

Allan Foster
afoster@cse.ogc.edu



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