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- From: Johan R=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F6nnblom <JRo0605@ba.ssdn.skellefte.se>?=
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: toy operating systems, like AmigaOS
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:50:40 -0700
- Organization: Balderskolan Skelleftea
- Message-ID: <317680F0.1ADF@ba.ssdn.skellefte.se>
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- > True, data in the application that crashes is lost, no matter what, but we
- > are talking about *multitasking* systems here! With memory protection, data
- > in other applications survives with no problem, but without it, all your
- > running programs and their unsaved data are lost.
- > So if you're rendering in Lightwave Amiga, and some other program crashes,
- > you've lost whatever Lightwave was working on. In a system with memory
- > protection, Lightwave could continue, undisturbed. (And shouldn't you be able
- > to use other programs while rendering. That's the point of multitasking,
- > isn't it?)
-
- Isn't there a memory protection system for the Amiga? I heard about something called
- 'Sushi', however, as I don't have a MMU I have not tested it. But still, even if you have
- memory protection, couldn't a program still crash the computer, ie locking up the
- processor or something, so that other programs are lost?
-