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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 15:27:51 GMT
- Organization: Creative Assistance Software
- Message-ID: <4eo1pn$nn8@ralph.vnet.net>
- References: <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net> <4egn0k$3d1g@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4eh3mr$p0b@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
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- In <4eh3mr$p0b@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, jmrubin@ix.netcom.com (Joel Rubin) writes:
- >In article <4egn0k$3d1g@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, regards@ibm.net says...
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- >OS/2 and Win95 share one big problem which NT doesn't. While each app
- >(or at least each 32-bit app in Win95) has its own address space, there
- >is critical O/S data and code in Win95 and OS/2 which are visible in the
- >address space of each app. Thus, an ill-behaved app can, in OS/2 or 95,
- >overwrite operating system junk and bring down the house.
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- Operating system memory space is not visible to an OS/2 programmer, unless
- he is writing a ring 0 device driver. The example you gave ony works on some
- machines with a hardware bug, and doesn't work by overwriting system
- memory.
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