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In article <13756@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>Another problem is that even if you provide the possiblity for new applications
>to run protected within the environment, the fact that older programs cann still
>jog around the address space and wreak havoc, defeats the initial purpose.
>Either you provide memory protection to everybody simultaneoulsy, or you
>don't at all.

This I don't understand.  If an old program goes and stomps on memory
protected by a program using some new OS call, shouldn't an exception be
generated which the rexception handler would pick up?  Thus you get a
software failure requester and no `real' harm is done.  Given that if the
memory wasn't protected you could easily end up with the stomped on program
getting very confused and crashing the system, I would rather have the
software failure requester...

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