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From: tim@efi.com (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Protected-mode snake oil
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.213243.6075@efi.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 21:32:43 GMT
References: <1204.26c2fb48@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Aug14.200525.20562@efi.com> <1990Aug15.133346.18080@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <44005@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <1990Aug14.200525.20562@efi.com> tim@efi.com (Tim Maroney) writes:
>>>I really don't like
>>>crashing my system hundreds of times during development.  It leads to
>>>disk errors, it wastes a lot of time, it sometimes loses my work

In article <44005@apple.Apple.COM> austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
>Try using Jasik's Debugger.  Yes, I know that its expensive, but according
>to the docs, it allows you to debug in protected mode on a PMMU-available
>machine.

I've heard that it consistently crashes during demonstrations, slows
down execution amazingly, and has an interface only slightly more
friendly than MacNosy.  No thanks.