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From: rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Pournelle
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Date: 29 Sep 88 21:00:00 GMT
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in article <5384@fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>Here's a question I want answered...Do PS/2 (OS/2) machines have memory
>protection?  I don't mean software segments.  I mean hardware protection.
>Otherwise, you know what will happen.  The first OS/2 applications may be
>quite buggy and may have a tendency to wipe out memory, causing system
>alerts (we call them GURUs.)  What would Jerry think about GURUs from the
>Gods In Blue?
>
>In a year or so, Amiga may have serious revenge on Mr Pournelle.

     I believe all 80(2|3)86 processors have hardware memory protection
on the chip.  This is why they can run Xenix and Unix.

						--Rob.



Robert Silvers.                                                 
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