On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Don Guinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Twenty years or so ago IBM came up with separate what they called "address > spaces" providing protection between users or applications. I think CDC did > this earlier but I didn't work with CDC at that time. This is the step that > I think is so good about Chrome. VM type systems provide that too.
Also, the term "process" refers to a virtual machine. (Though typically not one which emulates the underlying hardware.) > Swapping is horrible in Windows! Windows and now Vista both seem to wait > until it's too late to realize that they are having a shortage of real > memory causing loooong delays while it is writing out pages to free up real > memory. Mainframes addressed that years ago. You can address this flaw using Computer->Properties... Advanced system settings [Advanced tab, Performance] Settings... [Advanced tab, Virtual memory] Change... Custom size (radio button) Set the initial size to be sufficiently large. It's a good thing that their user interface is so useful and informative. > But the real problem that Chrome still does not address is that no one is > really addressing the problem of software installations. It looks like > Google touches on it but doesn't solve it. When a new software package is > installed a cryptic message pops up in a box which the documentation tells > you to ignore and reply "allow". Until an operating system is defined which > does not allow any modifications to it even for device drivers, which at the > level it can do anything added software will always be able to add its hooks > and do who knows what. I would think that Installing software on the underlying OS is an underlying OS issue. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
