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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga Resource tracking & Protection.
Summary: You don't speak for me...
Message-ID: <134@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 19:32:44 GMT
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In article <1990Mar12.071759.10106@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

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> MOST amiga owners don't want memory protection.

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Not me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I think the single most obnoxious thing about the amiga
is that one buggy program can (and generally will) crash the whole system.
IMHO, any multitasking system based on hardware that doesn't provide memory
protection is an inherantly unstable machine.  Don't get me wrong.  I love
multitasking... as an aside, I was obliged to use a Mac a while ago, and while
noticing how similar the user interface was, I wondered why I didn't see any
'click-to-back' gadgets.  Then I realized: ohhhh yeah... no multitasking.
So the short answer is that while I like multitasking, even on an unstable
platform, it would be worth A LOT to me to see 'core dump' or 'segment fault'
or some such when a program goes astray rather than 'Guru meditation... press
left mouse key to reboot'.

				Dave
				dave@cs.arizona.edu