Re: Comments on the Macintosh

[Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>]

Vinnie wrote:
>Tim,.I am suprised to hear you whining with such a liberals voice..  I
>always thought that  demanding memory protection in an OS  is a lot like
>demanding that the government is responsible for protecting you from
>anything that might go bad.. If applications are well written, then you
>really dont need the memory partitions in a personal computer.

Hi Vinnie.  I'm with Tim on this one.  While I have strong feelings about
locking up people, I have no compunctions at all about locking up
program-instances.  If I can contain the instances, and especially keep
them limited in their file access, I can do a bunch to control viruses and
other nasties.  (BTW - Linux, like all Unixes is piss poor at limiting file
system access.)

Best Regards - Bill


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