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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A/Ux
Message-ID: <7756@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 24 Apr 88 19:12:37 GMT
References: <8804092146.aa12779@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> <329NETOPRMS@NCSUVM> <1747@netmbx.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1747@netmbx.UUCP> blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume) writes:
>for running unix a memory mangement unit is a must. otherwise
>much runtime checking would be necessary if you want to avoid crashing the
>system with pointerish programming (Segmentation violation -- core dumped :-) 
>which is nearly unavoidable under unix....

I've seen quite good UNIX-like systems running on unprotected memory
architectures.  Sure, if you don't know what you're doing you could
crash the system.  How is that different from a non-UNIXy OS on your
Apple?