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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 23:46:10 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- h9525967@idefix.wu-wien.ac.at (Clemens Resanka) writes:
-
- >>Unfortunately this would include all old programs like Intuition, the
- >>Filesystems, the interrupts, old drivers.
-
- >intuition, the filesystem, interrupts, exec,.. (the whole system-software) has
- >to be adapted, so that it is a new program with protection.
-
- This is simply not possible. If you make it 100% protected you
- break 100% of all old software using it.
-
- >But at least exec should stay alive and should be able to analyze which
- >(old) program brought the machine down (α la "core dumped")
-
- It doesn't help you much if exec stays alive but your window system
- is dead...or the filesystem.
-
- >why?
- >other OSes can run programs in a separate memspace without losing
- >performance! (e.g. you can run a Windoze 3.1 app in a separate WinNT
- >mem-space if you want).. and I have the feeling that it is even faster!
-
- The main problem is interprocess communication. AmigaOS uses shared
- data. Windoze uses... a clipboard or external files. That's the
- difference.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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