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Article #127Re: Minix to the 68k?
From: jejones
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 14:18
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 14:18
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Hiya! I think <mike and Steve Blasingame have described stuff at least as well as I could, but I should mention also that there is hardware that lets you protect portions of the address space without mapping it. You can still fragment memory, but it's much harder for a runaway program to trash the system or other folks' memory. The ST and Amiga, as far as I know, don't have the beast, so you get to live dangerously, but (1) as <mike says, multitasking is more useful than single-tasking, and (2) there's nothing about TOS or CP/M68K that makes programmers magically write perfect code with no wild pointers. James Jones
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!mcrware.UUCP!jejones From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.68k Subject: Re: Minix to the 68k? Message-ID: <8702101419.AA28171@mcrware.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 09:18:00 EST Article-I.D.: mcrware.8702101419.AA28171 Posted: Tue Feb 10 09:18:00 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Feb-87 01:36:47 EST References: <8702070057.AA17890@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 11 Approved: info-68k@ucbvax.berkeley.edu