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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: MEMF_PHYSICAL?
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Date: 31 May 89 00:19:20 GMT
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Valentin wants to add a requester that pops up when protected memory is
accessed in an unnacceptable way.  The requester would tell you what
happened in the system with task xxx and task yyy and give you choices
on what to do about it.  I *like* the idea because it gives me flex-
ibility with my old software on new hardware 

                         **  BUT **

what about Harold Super-Manager who isn't a whiz-bang computer nerd and
just wants to point and shoot.  He gets the new A3500 with the latest
silicon and the fastest doohickeys and MEMORY-PROTECTION!!  Suddenly all
his applications are popping up these requesters asking him to make
decisions about the innards of the OS.  Doesn't sound like a good move
to make marketing-wise.  How can you handle that problem?  People who
don't want to know how it works, they just want it to work and keep on
working.

Dana

PS - there really are people out there using their A1000 all the time 
and not once opening up a CLI.  Just workbench and windowing utilities.
I think the protection requester would be a major scare.