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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 11:45:31 +0100
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- Subject: Re: OS features
- Message-ID: <13213430@sourcery.han.de>
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- In Article <569.6564T692T2329@datashopper.dk>, Michael B Andersen <mba@datashopper.dk> wrote:
- > >operating system, the message passing system is one of these aspects
- > >(exec device model, filing system packet I/O, Intuition event distribution,
- >
- >
- > Hi Olaf,
- >
- > If!. Our beloved OS is going to "hack it" against the big boys, it's critical
- > that all "RE-BOOTs" be removed, in other words, IMHO people will be looking
- > for OS's that don't "break" when programs fail, in the coming years. So I find
- > it crutial that the operating system is crash proof, and I don't see any way
- > that can be done without memory protection.
-
- You are asking for reliability, not necessarily for memory protection. One
- can be the key to the other. An alternative path that looks promising would
- be to enhance the operating system to provide better error checking, error
- reporting, consistency checks and safe abort procedures. Right now one badly
- written program can trigger a domino effect. I believe that at least part of
- the crash cascade could be avoided.
-
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