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- From: drizzt@trashcan.mcnet.de (Martin Hauner)
- Subject: Re: Why I switched from the Amiga
- Message-ID: <w+QfSMD158aCz4@mtonne22.trashcan.mcnet.de>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 13:40:34 CET
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- Dr. Peter Kittel wrote:
-
- > >: 1) No Memory protection! Sounds Trivial? But Programmer productivity
- > >: is Low is the machine keeps crashing!!!
- >
- > If you program cleanly from start and don't just "experiment with code",
- > you won't crash your Amiga so often.
-
- Come on... 'never' and 'not so often' are quite different.
-
- > For memory protection, the
- > whole messaging system of the OS would have to be changed e.g. to a
- > system where messages are copied instead of just passing pointers.
-
- Not necessarily, one could simply add a link to the receivers
- mmu-table, so it would get access to the senders memory-page
- containing the message. The processes would have some shared
- memory for comunication.
-
- There would be no need to copy the message.
-
- --
- // Martin Hauner
- \\/
- Obelix : Einverstanden. Aber nicht gleich. Zuerst wird geschlafen!
-