Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Bernd "Bernie" Meyer
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 11:19

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corp0008@sable.ox.ac.uk (John Reynolds) writes:

>In article <4335ku$np8@orion.cybercom.net>,
>Jerry Shekhel <jerry@cybercom.net> wrote:
>>Juergen Wahlmann (ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
>>
>>It's also in the hands of the OS to protect the user's machine from crashing
>>due to a bug in one of the programs he's running.  And developing software in
>>an environment without memory protection is a nightmare compared to the
>>alternative.

>I don't find it to be too much of a problem. It is true that when developing
>software on my Amiga, I have to reboot fairly frequently, but it only takes
>a few seconds. It is usually fairly obvious when my code has gone wrong. ;)

Is it also obvious _where_ it has gone wrong, and _why_? Getting a nice
coredump instead of a system crash has its adavntages --- the debugger can
analyze the coredump, but not the system crash.

Bernie


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From: root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer)
Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
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