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- From: robodude@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Zsolt Szabo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 31 Dec 1995 20:33:31 GMT
- Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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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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