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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <1991May12.210110.23707@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 May 91 21:01:10 GMT
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allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH) writes:

>+---------------
>|     In any case, I'm surprised. Is the Amiga OS the only rational one
>|     in this bunch, eh?
>+---------------

>I don't consider running all programs in supervisor mode "rational".  Does/did
>the Atari ST do this?  The Mac does, and it shows.

  Yes, although it's now changing in System 7.0 with VM.  Now, processes
run in user mode under VM.

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