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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: Multi Line BBS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.152822.29515@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <OTTO.92Dec10034017@tukki.jyu.fi> <1992Dec18.080158.19384@netcom.com> <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:28:22 GMT
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- In article <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- > Any computer is suited for BBS programs, but the NeXT is definitely
- > *NOT* suited for arbitrary (unknown) user accounts, it is simply too
- > easy to crash the machine.
- >
- > * No quotas
-
-
- Eeep!
-
-
- > * If you fill up the disk and the NeXT runs out of swap it crashes
- > hard.
- > * No resource limits (NeXT ignores everything but the stack size limit)
- > * No process/thread limits
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
-
- Surely you jest. Surely, certainly, the OS of the future is
- not so threadbare that it lacks features that most versions
- of UNIX have these days..?
-
-
-
- >--
- >
- > Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
- > 1005 Apollo Way uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
- > Incline Village, NV. 89451 ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
- > USA Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000
- >
-
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