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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <1991May13.223255.8897@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 13 May 91 22:32:55 GMT
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As quoted from <1991May12.210110.23707@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
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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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...mainly because they have to, to get VM.  Which won't prevent one program
from smashing another unless they also add memory protection, which I rather
suspect Apple didn't.

++Brandon
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