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From: lag@itsgw.rpi.edu (Jose Raffucci)
Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster?
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References: <CPETTERB.91Apr2105151@mickey.glacier.sim.es.com> <1991Apr2.235710.13984@news.iastate.edu> <1991Apr3.201259.8377@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 23:20:02 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.201259.8377@engin.umich.edu> milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daryl Scott Cantrell) writes:
>
>  What is the big deal about memory protection and resource tracking?
>Sure, it might be a nice toy, but it wouldn't be real useful on a
>single-user system.  Is this one of those things people want just
>because Unix has it?
>

What's the 'big deal' about memory protection?  Well, I used to think like
that...Until, that is, I had to _write and debug_ a real program.  I always
used to wonder what all those 'segmentation fault -- core dumped' messages
meant.  Here's what they mean:
	
	1.  No panicking because you had something in your ram disk and now
	    it's toasty in guru heaven

	2.  No constant check of how true your faith is in the Gomf gods.

	3.  Not having to worry about losing your data connection because
	    your machine decided to ponder its own existance.

	4.  Not having to wonder where the last copy of code you made
	    was.

     5.  Of course, a handy dandy picture of the memory you trashed to
	    go over at your leisure, or post to ab20 if it's particularly
         interesting.

I hope you begin to see the picture.  It's really annoying having your
machine dump you just because you tried to move a window just a tad fast,
or you were squaring instead of adding one to your counter.  Even though I
like the lattice compiler, I'm usually forced to use the campus suns to
compile my projects because they won't crash so easily on me.

-hOz
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