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Article #3292Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Clyde Coffey
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 06:07
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 06:07
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christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote: >In article <4gu4du$7jb@news-f.iadfw.net>, clyde@iadfw.net (Clyde Coffey) writes: >|> I understand that. But it looks to me as if it's impossible for an >|> application to run entirely outside of the Blue Box. >Faceless processes run completely outside of the Blue Box >(e.g. Networking protocol stack). I think we've been around this shrub before. Faceless processes are not called applications in the Copland reference. >Copland applications can't crash each other. The closest they can >come is crashing the blue box, which gets restarted, and the >application redraws its face. I would call that "protected from each >other". I wouldn't. One app has corrupted the memory of another. That's lack of protection, no matter how graceful the recovery. Besides, if one app tramples the UI of another, the victim app may pass bogus data to the app's server process(es). BTW, I stipulate that this isn't likely.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.iadfw.net!usenet From: clyde@iadfw.net (Clyde Coffey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 06:07:06 GMT Organization: j%nki~wÂRJ3M-26XPLZ8L-BFGD44CT-1EA6BC82 Message-ID: <4h6409$ato@news-f.iadfw.net> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824477998@rscernix> <4g3t0l$b71@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824606547@rscernix> <mem-1902961857250001@durin.pha.jhu.edu> <4gckcj$de3@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4gfj0d$etk@steel.interlog.com> <4gh8ma$b9p@news-f.iadfw.net> <wade-2202961716330001@f182-165.net.wisc.edu> <4gl353$d36@news-f.iadfw.net> <4gsr4v$bp7@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <4gu4du$7jb@news-f.iadfw.net> <4h5hec$rj4@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal13-15.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82