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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fed up with MIPS
Message-ID: <6666@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:35:43 GMT
References: <76700077@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <2526@uceng.UC.EDU> <6626@ficc.uu.net> <1419@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1419@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>   Actually the old XT will run UNIX nicely, being quite a bit bigger
> than the original PDP-11.

I know. I've been there.

> The hardware protect is adequate for a non-hostile environment,

And it's adequate for a mildly-hostile (need a better term... one where the
users are freindly but the software is clumsy or hostile) environment where
you can't create executable files at will. Application level protection, in
short.
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
"That particular mistake will not be repeated.  There are plenty of        'U`
 mistakes left that have not yet been used." -- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)