Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru Message-ID: <7459@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 5 Jan 91 14:00:57 GMT References: <2468@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 12 In article <2468@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: > A new OS will not protect you from errors in your code, or ill-behaved > programs[.] Well, *a* new O/S may... for example, Amiga UNIX will protect you very nicely from ill-behaved programs. What you mean to say is that AmigaOS 2.0 won't. This protection isn't free, by the way. Compare real-time performance of UNIX with AmigaOS. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .