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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: EU.net!sun4nl!hguijt
- From: hguijt@inter.NL.net (Hans Guijt)
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Message-ID: <DLAA4t.2ny@inter.NL.net>
- Organization: NLnet
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- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:05:17 GMT
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- >I'll second that. It's just too easy to pretend that memory protection is
- >such a 100% safety feature. I've had UNIX machines crash from the login
- >prompt, I've seen the GUI freeze completely so you can't even activate a
- >window. Right now, mysterious configuration problems are making one in
- >eight or so of our UNIX machines (all completely identical running the exact
- >same software) completely useless and there's nothing you can do about it.
- >Processes just freeze on startup and don't leave when you `kill' them.
- >Before that, we had machines refusing to open shells for a particular user
- >and the problem was never solved until it went away of its own free will.
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- Those are the ones that can be crashed from the login prompt just by typing
- backspace once too often, aren't they?
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- BTW, we should stop meeting like this ;-)
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- Hans
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