Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/KT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Protected-mode snake oil Message-ID: <1990Aug14.010751.20050@NCoast.ORG> Date: 14 Aug 90 01:07:51 GMT References: <1210.26c694ed@waikato.ac.nz> <8099@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/KT) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH Lines: 26 As quoted from <8099@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> by wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins): +--------------- | Various people said, ( sorry, lost the attribution line ) | >> Adobe Type Manager, | | >Yes. OpenWindows on a Sun supports scalable fonts. The standard | >configuration comes with 57 scalable fonts. | > | >> or After Dark? | > | >Several screen savers are available. | | You're obviously missing the point. What he meant to point out is that in | a protected-mode environment it is very difficult for a user process to | directly patch operating system calls, and he is arguing that the capability | makes the Macintosh a much more easily customizable system. +--------------- The point *he* was making is that all of this is done with USER-mode code and therefore can't crash the system.... ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF: KB8JRR/KT on 220 (soon others) Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Delphi: ALLBERY uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery America OnLine: KB8JRR