On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:18:41 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I see , my point here,  how a normal,  nonauthorised application can
>brings down the system.
>

Poor planning (no IEFUSI, nor a robust paging subsystem).

Back in "the day" when MVS/XA was all the rage (wow, 31-bit!) and
systems only and 10M or 20M of real memory, a 31-bit program could do 
the same thing easy enough.    Search the archives for "unconditional getmain".

Mark
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