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Article #1437Re: Multi Line BBS
From: Yamanari
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:28
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:28
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In article <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: > Any computer is suited for BBS programs, but the NeXT is definitely > *NOT* suited for arbitrary (unknown) user accounts, it is simply too > easy to crash the machine. > > * No quotas Eeep! > * If you fill up the disk and the NeXT runs out of swap it crashes > hard. > * No resource limits (NeXT ignores everything but the stack size limit) > * No process/thread limits ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ Surely you jest. Surely, certainly, the OS of the future is not so threadbare that it lacks features that most versions of UNIX have these days..? >-- > > Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US > 1005 Apollo Way uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon > Incline Village, NV. 89451 ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop) > USA Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000 > -- "If you can't eat sand, why the hell are you living in a desert?" Rule 1: "Don't have more children than you can feed." Nuclear redevelopment for a better world!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!rsrodger From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) Subject: Re: Multi Line BBS Message-ID: <1992Dec20.152822.29515@wam.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: rac1.wam.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland, College Park References: <OTTO.92Dec10034017@tukki.jyu.fi> <1992Dec18.080158.19384@netcom.com> <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:28:22 GMT Lines: 37