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- From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 15:54:55 GMT
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- In article <4c6s2r$q6g@news.jhu.edu>, robodude@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Zsolt Szabo) writes:
- |>jrstrai (jrstrai@freeway.net) wrote:
- |>
- |>: Oh yes let me tell you how it sucks to lose hours of work to the GURU!
- |>: spreadsheets, source code, papers, checkbook. ARGH! And auto save helps, but
- |>: should not be neccesary, at least not quite so.
- |>
- |>
- |>Memory protection would not help in this case any more. Once your
- |>application crashes, it doesn't matter whether your OS goes with it or
- |>not. Even if you had mem protection, the application would still crash
- |>and you couldn't recover the file. It's a matter of how the application
- ...
- yes, an application that crashes itself will still crash.
- The advantage of protection is, real applications that don't
- crash themselves won't be corrupted by other applications.
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- Greg
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