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- From: siren@dns.mikrobitti.fi (Janne Siren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 15:35:44 GMT
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- Olaf Barthel (olsen@sourcery.han.de) wrote:
- : The reason for leaving out memory protection was that once the design was
- : frozen it was very difficult to retrofit it into the design. Message passing
-
- Why not add some sort of a virtual machine (ala Windows 95, but better :-)
- that would allow us to run old applications (if one went down, all would, but
- not the new applications that run in protected environment) but feature
- memory protection for the new applications. Naturally it would take a while
- until programmers would use the new environment, but it would be a step to
- the right direction.
-
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- Janne Siren
- siren@mikrobitti.fi, http://www.mikrobitti.fi/~siren/
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