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From: bell@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Mike Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Protected-mode snake oil
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.121633.8714@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Date: 20 Aug 90 12:16:33 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.133346.18080@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <44005@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Aug17.213243.6075@efi.com>
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In article <1990Aug17.213243.6075@efi.com> tim@efi.com (Tim Maroney) writes:
>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.




    ....But in some circumstances, it's the only thing that works. I used
it a lot while working on a NUBUS card driver (always a FUN experience).
It's also the only debugger that is upgraded (with docs) every few months.
I actually find Debugger's interface to be better than Macsbug.




		Mike Bell





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