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- From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 17:52:52 GMT
- Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
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- In article <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- |>
- |> Just a question.. why don't Amigas coredump like UNIX? Why do they
- |> instead crash messily and 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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- Core-Dumping is not the main point. I suppress core dumping, because I don't
- like this 8 MB files in my home dir and Unix still crashes. The thing that
- prevents Unix from crashing is "Virtual Memory Management". This feature
- requires advanced hardware (a Memory Management Unit) which most Amigas don't
- have. The OS must be designed for this e.g. NO public structures. But there
- are LOTS of public structures in AmigaOS, e.g. the shared libraries.
-
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- Matthias Scheler tron@uni-paderborn.de
- University of Paderborn (Germany)
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