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- From: marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans)
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
- Message-ID: <1953@lysator.liu.se>
- Keywords: coredump, guru
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- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
- References: <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov12.085832.7382@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:46:34 GMT
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- matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
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- >In article <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >>
- >>Just a question.. why don't Amigas coredump like UNIX?
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- >Because it gives you a nice guru telling you the Why and the Where
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- >>Why do they instead crash messily and reset?
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- >Because its not guarantied that your data is safe.
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- Wouldn't you like the computer to continue working and then let the user
- decide if he/she wants to reset?
-
- >>Basically, I'm asking.. what allows a
- >>UNIX to coredump, and relativeily, what does Amiga LACK that won't let
- >>it coredump w/o crashing?
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- >It doesnt lack nothing, it was a design decision of the OS to do this.
- >(But MP wold be usefull)
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- It lacks an MMU, which is not a must, but very useful, for proper memory
- protection.
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