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From: mjr@welch.jhu.edu (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What the sales of Mac II's mean
Message-ID: <1989Nov2.164612.7101@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 89 16:46:12 GMT
References: <1989Nov2.024147.15966@welch.jhu.edu> <8388@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjr@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Marcus J. Ranum)
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore
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In article <8388@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <1989Nov2.024147.15966@welch.jhu.edu>, mjr@welch.jhu.edu (Marcus J. Ranum) says:
>
>Now, my machine at home crashes constantly, but I'm actually writing the
>software there and causing the crashes, so that's to be expected under any
>OS without hardware memory protection.  But I'd rather write for the Amiga
>OS than UNIX anyway.
>

	That's basically what I meant: I simply can't take a machine
without hardware memory protection very seriously. For a machine that
doesn't have it, the Amiga is my favorite, but I'll never consider it a
serious development platform. Just as many people say "I can't imagine a
machine without a multi-tasking OS" :-)  I just have trouble trusting a
machine that can get toasted by applications-level software.

--mjr();
-- 
	He was in his room half awake, half asleep. The walls of the room
seemed to alter angles, elongating and shrinking alternately, then twisting
around completely so that he was in the opposite side of the room.
	"A trick of the light and too much caffeine," he thought.    -Bauhaus