Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!udel!mmdf From: scott%applix.uucp%UDEL.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Pournelle Message-ID: <4500@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 4 Oct 88 05:21:01 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 43 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 7125; Tue, 04 Oct 88 01:07:47 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Tue, 04 Oct 88 01:07:45 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aq10567; 3 Oct 88 18:16 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa10444; 3 Oct 88 18:01 EDT From: scott%applix.uucp@UDEL.EDU Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Pournelle Message-ID: <4395@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 22:00:43 GMT To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 7624; Sat, 01 Oct 88 00:21:12 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sat, 01 Oct 88 00:21:08 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id ab17280; 30 Sep 88 20:37 EDT Received: by Louie.UDEL.EDU id ab17131; 30 Sep 88 20:25 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa16707; 30 Sep 88 20:10 EDT From: Scott Evernden Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Pournelle Message-ID: <814@applix.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 88 04:00:09 GMT Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU 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