Will MMU hardware prevent system crashes?

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From: Gary L. Crum
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 17:42

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I am trying to decide which Macintosh to buy to replace the Plus I've sold,
and I'd like to hear what people think about the benefits of
hardware memory-management (i.e. having a 68030 machine).  I don't
care much about virtual memory, because memory is inexpensive and I
don't want to sacrifice the wonderful response time of Macintosh
software, but I would be very happy if System 7.0 prevents some system
crashes by trapping "bad" memory writes by application programs (e.g.
my own programs during development).  Anyone care to hint or speculate
or give me references?  What about "Virtual"?  Does it provide protection?
Thanks.

Gary

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