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- From: fzchen@othello.ucdavis.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: 7.1 in Beta???
- Message-ID: <16112@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 21:03:20 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.153209.24172@email.tuwien.ac.at> <1992Aug14.163558.26566@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- In article <1992Aug14.163558.26566@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca (David Ross) writes:
- >That's great, but are Sounds done the same way? Seems like a really good
- >idea. In fact, why the heck is the System File a suitcase - that doesn't
- >really make sense. All changeable pieces should be separated from the
- >System. Kinda like a microkernel I guess!!
-
- I agree. I had a system crash once. It seems that some unruly
- application I was using left a sound resource open. I had to completely
- reinstall the system. Unfortunately, I had too kill the old system
- and couldn't save the fonts or sounds. Luckily I had backups, but
- if I hadn't....
-
- It sounds like this architecture will prevent problems like this
- from occuring.
-
- -MeatHead
-