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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A use for protected mode after all
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.051104.21946@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 28 Nov 90 05:11:04 GMT
References: <2371.27539d74@waikato.ac.nz>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <2371.27539d74@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:

.It would be very useful if a resident debugger could protect itself
.against other software running amuck (whether this be rogue applications,
.or the system itself). It would also greatly improve the debugger's
.ability to diagnose problems. And I think it can be done with minimal
.impact on the rest of the system.

This feature is now available with Jasik's Debugger.  It even helps catch
simple bugs, like trying to use the contents of location 0.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)