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- From: jrstrai@freeway.net (jrstrai)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 04:14:34 GMT
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- >jrstrai (jrstrai@freeway.net) wrote:
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- >: 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.
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- >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
- >is written. Of course this also sometimes depends on how applications
- >interact with each other, but even then it boils down to how friendly a
- >particular app is WRT resources.
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- Those applications are never the ones that crashed, they were just
- dragged down by the bad ones.
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