Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: What to buy??(numbercruncher) Message-ID: <4581.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Date: 20 Jun 91 07:03:22 GMT References: <1991Jun17.172930.13518@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun17.203338.23645@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <69cH+x7?@cs.psu.edu> Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG. Lines: 14 Quoted from <69cH+x7?@cs.psu.edu> by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): > I was referring to the fact that playing with C on a computer w/o > memory protection isn't a good thing if you are going to run a > program in the background for a few hours. It depends a bit on what you're doing... using something like Enforcer while writing your C (or being a reasonably competent programmer :) could save you a lot of grief should something unfortunate happen. > -Mike -- *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** *** "Endless variations, make it all seem new" - Devo. ***