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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- References: <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov12.085832.7382@ifi.unizh.ch> <1953@lysator.liu.se>
- X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 3.4, 1992/08/12 15:49:52
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- Message-ID: <mwm.2mcx@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 12:03:55 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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- In <1953@lysator.liu.se>, marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) wrote:
- > matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
- > >Because its not guarantied that your data is safe.
- >
- > Wouldn't you like the computer to continue working and then let the user
- > decide if he/she wants to reset?
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- Starting with 2.0, you can.
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- > >It doesnt lack nothing, it was a design decision of the OS to do this.
- > >(But MP wold be usefull)
- >
- > It lacks an MMU, which is not a must, but very useful, for proper memory
- > protection.
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- Hmmm - how are you going to do MP without an MMU, except by
- restricting the languages people get to use (ala Burroughs)?
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- <mike
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