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  2. From: storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: OS features
  5. Date: 22 Jan 1996 15:57:33 +1100
  6. Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
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  11. Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
  12. : poing@luna.nl (Paul van der Valk) writes:
  13.  
  14. : Maybe not 99% but surely the majority. BTW, the Disable() macro has to
  15. : fail at some point. You cannot get stable operation without absolutely
  16. : blocking hardware access to normal programs (and.. I would even block
  17. : Disable() and maybe even Forbid() in the future, same goes to a large
  18. : variety of system calls that can crash the system and are not needed
  19. : in normal programs).
  20.  
  21. It's no surprise that you would ban taking over the system, Michael. :-)
  22.  
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  25. Storm / Cydonia      / / / / / / / / / / / / ' /       Packing class
  26.                     / /\/>  / / / / / / / / / /__     & kicking arse!
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