Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!deven From: deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: UNIX vs. Amiga speeds Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 89 09:13:13 GMT References: <6394@cbmvax.UUCP> <6411@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 20 In-reply-to: andy@cbmvax.UUCP's message of 28 Mar 89 21:01:32 GMT In article <6411@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes: >As I recall, the 68000 has a bit of trouble recovering from >an address error. (not enough state info saved). >This was fixed in the 68010. (wasn't there a 68000 computer >that used 2 68000s to get around this one ?) This could be. There are other more blatent situations where bringing down the entire machine is NOT necessary -- such as freeing memory already freed... [True, some note should be made, and the user perhaps warned, in case the system is actually fried, a time bomb just waiting to explode... but it shouldn't just crash.] Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.