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Article #14205Re: Amiga Resource tracking & Protection.
From: Chris Lang
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 1990 03:14
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 1990 03:14
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In article <19460@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>In article <1410044@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
> I prefer a dual-standard OS. Let it run unprotected programs (and
>when they crash, the whole OS and computer crashes) and
>protected programs concurrently. Allow programs written for 'protected mode'
>to be run on a machine without an MMU, and consequently without protection.
What is the point of having memory protection if only SOME programs are
protected? I don't see how you can call them "protected" since they are
NOT. An unprotected program can crash a protected one? Doesn't sound much
like protection to me.
-Chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!umich!caen.engin.umich.edu!chrisl From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Amiga Resource tracking & Protection. Message-ID: <492e3b6e.1a5bf@moth.engin.umich.edu> Date: 14 Mar 90 03:14:00 GMT References: <208.25f3c82b@waikato.ac.nz> <1410044@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> <19460@grebyn.com> Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lines: 19