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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: MMU + A3000 + AmigaOS2.0 == Non-crashing system?
Message-ID: <13694@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 04:06:05 GMT
References: <2489@clinet.FI> <13624@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Aug6.115552.14352@sisd.kodak.com>
Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Aug6.115552.14352@sisd.kodak.com> jeh@athena.sisd.kodak.com
(Ed Hanway) writes:
>
> As an intermediate step to full memory protection, why not just forbid read
> and write access to free memory?  This won't do a thing to stop programs
> from corrupting each other, but it might help catch the bugs that cause
> these problems.

As I said in my previous message, this has just been done. And indeed a very
large amount of software is caught in the act thanks to this utility. Often
people on the net feel that their suggestions go unnoticed. I hope the
Guardian-Angel proves that to be false. Keep them coming.

Valentin
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