Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ulowell!m2c!applix!scott
From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Pournelle
Message-ID: <814@applix.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 04:00:09 GMT
References: <5384@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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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.

Absolutely.  The 80286 maintains chip-level hardware protection and
memory management.

>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.)

No, no system alerts.  Programs can still crash (obviously), but they are
unable to affect other processes or memory.

-scott