Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 01:48

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In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.960202104735.516A-100000@skule.ecf>, HSUEH 
WALTER C <hsuehw@ecf.toronto.edu> wrote:

> Agreed.  Under a preemptive environment, misbehaving applications cannot
> crash the OS.

Yeah, sure.  For some strange reason, my friend's Amiga crashes all the
time, and it has a preemptive environment.

You aren't alone; misinformation on PMT preventing machines from crashing
gets posted around once a week.

>I guess a stronger classification would be OSes which
> have "modern microkernel OS features".

You ought to learn what the buzzwords really mean before your try and
apply them.
-- 
        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799

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From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
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: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 18:48:14 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona
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