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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac OS versus A/UX, Who runs under who?
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.004631.20821@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 5 Nov 90 00:46:31 GMT
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In article <627@treehouse.UUCP> andyp@treehouse.UUCP (Andy Peterman) writes:
>a program and A/UX keeps running, a VERY nice feature.  After the
>program bombs, you can sometimes recover within the MacOS, or "restart",
>which simply kills the MacOS process and logs you out, all without
>affecting any other A/UX process, except for stealing a lot of processor
>time.

Wait.  I don't think you mean "logs you out", at least not in the Unix
sense of the term.  I mean, if a bombed MacOS program actually logged
me out of my A/UX session, it would be only slightly better than
having the whole system go down.

Of course, if your login session starts MacOS and no other processes,
it would log you out, but I'm not sure that that would utilize the
advantages of A/UX.