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From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Stability of Commodore/Amiga
Keywords: Unix, Amiga, OS/2, DOS
Message-ID: <490f92b6.db93@edsel.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 90 00:56:00 GMT
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Reply-To: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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In article <2854@mtuni.ATT.COM> psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu) writes:
>The advantage of OS/2 over the Amiga is better memory protection.  If one of
>your program crash, it is less likely to crash the whole machine than the Amiga,
>which has no hardware memory management as far as I know.

OS/2's memory protection is mainly in software - device drivers, for instance,
can crash the machine in an instant because they operate at a low level where
the system can not trap protection violations.

 -Chris
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