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From: rlawrence@halluc.FIDONET.ORG (Richard Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: help --> how to preve
Message-ID: <20.27877C8B@halluc.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 6 Jan 91 05:56:00 GMT
Organization: The Hallucination BBS, Fairfax VA (703) 425-5824
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-> So in return, here's _my_ own beefs <g>:  First, the unspeakable
-> horror of today's CS majors who rely on hardware to catch their
-> mistakes.  Second, the unrealistic expectation that inexpensive
-> personal computers should have

Hmmm. Well, this one goes both ways in my mind. While I agree that it's 
not terrible that the Amiga's current OS doesn't make use of an MMU (not 
present in most Amiga machines), it's a royal pain in the arse that it 
doesn't do resource recovery - and the major reason it doesn't is 
because it wasn't that feasible without an MMU. An MMU is not a magical 
wand that keeps you from killing your machine with errant tasks. I can 
make OS/2 rollover and play dead just as well as I can AmigaDos. :-)

-> a $99 Tandy CoCo-3... it's got an MMU :).  And I'd be terribly
-> surprised if Amiga Unix doesn't use it.  Further, I think you're
-> right that _eventually_

Good Lord, it would be horrible to see a Unix that doesn't try to 
protect itself. Luckily, just like AT&T's 5.4 (which is what it is 
anyway) our Unix gracefully whines when a task errors out with nice 
little segmentation errors that don't shut down everything else. 
-Rich Lawrence, Sysop:Hallucination 703-425-5824 Amiga/Atari/Mac 
rlawrence@halluc.fidonet.org 
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