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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:42:24 GMT
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- Andy Finkel (andy@cbmvax.commodore.com) wrote:
- : >
- : >False. If the section of the OS which writes to the disk is protected
- : >and there is no other way to write except through the OS, writing a
- : >virus becomes more difficult (not impossible, just difficult)
- :
- : That's not right. In fact, that's not even wrong. First of all,
- : memory protection has little to do with writing to the disk.
- : For instance, the section of code that writes to the disk
- : on the Amiga is in ROM. ROM is generally considered to be
- : rather 'protected'.
- :
-
- Right, but there's nothing preventing a nasty application from bypassing
- your ROM routines and talking directly to the disk hardware, screwing things
- up. On a system with properly-implemented memory protection, however, it's
- much more difficult (if at all possible) to write such an application.
-
- :
- : andy finkel andy@cbmvax.commodore.com
- :
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