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From: carpent@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Memory Protection
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Date: 2 Nov 89 17:23:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: mjr@welch.jhu.edu's message of 2 Nov 89 16:46:12 GMT


In article <1989Nov2.164612.7101@welch.jhu.edu> mjr@welch.jhu.edu (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:

>   In article <8388@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>   >
>   >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.
>    [misc deleted]

>	   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.
>    [misc deleted]
>   --mjr();
>   -- 


Oh, gimme a break.  How many embedded systems have you played with?  SBC's?  A
good number of them neither have memory protection nor virtual memory.  They
are the same critters that fly your airplanes, run your CT and MRI scanners,
and a plethora of other things.  They run the world about you.  Is that serious
enough for you?

Yes, I'll admit Guru's are annoying.  As a neophyte amiga programmer I've seen
more than my share.   Big deal.  I reboot, and merrily continue (with a fast
hard disk, and the 2620, I barely have time to grab another coke).  One thing I
can say for sure - it certainly is an obvious way of discovering bugs!

-Todd C.