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Article #2184Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Rask Lambertsen
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:59
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:59
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On 12 Sep 1995 11:52:20 GMT John Reynolds (corp0008@sable.ox.ac.uk) wrote: > In article <4335ku$np8@orion.cybercom.net>, > Jerry Shekhel <jerry@cybercom.net> wrote: > >Juergen Wahlmann (ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de) wrote: > > > >It's also in the hands of the OS to protect the user's machine from crashing > >due to a bug in one of the programs he's running. And developing software in > >an environment without memory protection is a nightmare compared to the > >alternative. > I don't find it to be too much of a problem. It is true that when developing > software on my Amiga, I have to reboot fairly frequently, but it only takes > a few seconds. It is usually fairly obvious when my code has gone wrong. ;) I agree with you on that. I have only once had one programme corrupt the memory of another programme. That faulty programme was a device driver that I was writing, and the problem was so severe, that it could simply not happen in a programme released to the public. There are debugging utilities like MungWall and Enforcer that don't give much chance of using memory that don't belong to you programme. -- Regards, _________________________________________________________________________ / \ | Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <gc948374@gbar.dtu.dk>, <e9864029@ebar.dtu.dk> | | WWW homepage: http://srv2.gbar.dtu.dk:8001/Rask/ | | Keyboard error: <Ctrl> and <Alt> are stuck - press <Del> to continue | \_________________________________________________________________________/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!tycho.gbar.dtu.dk!gc948374 From: gc948374@tycho.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Lambertsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!! Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.destroy.microsoft Date: 15 Sep 1995 11:59:04 GMT Organization: DTU Message-ID: <43bpq8$on2@unidhp.uni-c.dk> References: <19950904.1178078.10674@olympus.net> <19950902.117E5D8.8BEA@olympus.net> <810154401snz129.os2O <4335ku$np8@orion.cybercom.net> <433s9k$rpk@news.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tycho.gbar.dtu.dk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]