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- From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Needs a Supervisor mode!
- Message-ID: <unruh.713943805@physics.ubc.ca>
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- References: <1992Aug15.230755.14630@chpc.utexas.edu> <1992Aug16.001819.14010@unixg.ubc.ca> <mcdonald.211@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug16.043823.18033@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 05:43:25 GMT
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- ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
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- >In article <mcdonald.211@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
- >>In article <1992Aug16.001819.14010@unixg.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>>Well, some people have complained about OS/2 not having multiuser capabilities
- >>>out of the box, but I think IBM should include a "Supervisor" or "root"
- >>>mode, and a "User" mode as a bare minimum. A "restricted" mode would also
- >>>be nice.
- >>
- >>
- >>Don't ask to saddle OS/2 with overhead that lots of people don't care about.
- >>
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- >People don't care about viruses or trojan horse programs? Or just plain poorly
-
- I agree taht having a protected mode for the important system files
- would be very nice. On the otherhand I come from a Unix environment at
- work. For Dosers, it would probably be another barrier to acceptance of
- OS2. But it will have to come if any level of security is to be put into
- OS2.
- Bill Unruh
- unruh@physics.ubc.ca
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