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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
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- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 08:11:21 -0700
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- In-reply-to: mike Redrobe's message of Mon, 8 Jan 96 02:04:55 GMT
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- mike Redrobe <mike@redrobe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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- > yeah unix if pretty much bulletproof...but 2years is an exaggeration surely?
- > someone did a crafty reboot every month on you? ;)
- > I take it that unix system is in continous use?..does it run X-win too?
-
- No exaggeration; there are many systems around that have been up for
- over 1 year, and a smaller but significant number that have been up for
- two. As reported by uptime. Yes, they run X11, and some very intensive
- test suites and nightly builds of a few million lines of source code, as
- well as countless other things (emacs/framemaker/etc). The only real
- thing that limits uptimes is occasionally having to unplug them to move
- them around.
-
- Anyway, I feel the Amiga could make a big step in the right direction by
- starting out with just partial protection and phasing it in gradually.
- For example, and a MEMF_PROTECTED tag to the types currently understood
- by AllocVec/etc. This would allocate memory that couldn't be stomped by
- another task. Programmers would have to use this explicitly, in order
- to retain backwards source compatibility, but its better than nothing.
- That, and you could protect code segments since they shouldn't be
- written to. It wouldn't protect everything, but a few simple things
- like that could go a *long* way towards increasing stability.
-
- - steve
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