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In article <180@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>I have a suggestion.  Lots of people worry about the Amiga crashing
>when they are using it in a multitasking mode.  We all know that by
>and large improperly written software (including COMMERCIAL) is
>responsible for this.  The effect of improperly written software is
>multiplied in a multitasking environment.  The result has been in
>giving the Amiga a reputation of crashing easily, even though the
>operating system is not responsible in most case.

I mildly disagree...(oh boy, let's start another OS debate)....  I think
one of the duties of an operating system is to protect processess from one
another.  That's resource allocation and control.  You are right in that
if every program was completely correct then the system would never crash
(independent of hardware failures).  But when is the last time you saw a
completely correct program that actually did something useful?  ("hello
world" isn't very useful.)  They aren't very common, especially when the
programmer has to be responsible for deallocation in addition to
allocation.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>