> I've worked in the past on VAX
> computers with protected memory and time-sliced shared processing...and I
> have missed it for years on the Mac. I fear few people without a similar
> background will understand as well as I do what the advantages are; it will
> be worth the price for X
A little off topic, but VAX/VMS was far more stable than most people
realize. I once had the displeasure of watching a janitor accidentally trip
the breakers on the system and swap disks of one of our large systems. He
quickly realized his mistake and reset the breakers. The system froze at the
point the power failed to the disks, and I expect to have to restart all of
my and 100 other persons' work; but when the disks finished spinning up
after power was restored, all the process on the system continued without
any problems. Now that is a stable system!
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Eric Hildum
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