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From: lauren%rand-unix@vortex.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: multi-user on PC
Message-ID: <16529@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 16:09:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 16:09:29 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 06:44:25 EST
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When looking at multi-user operations on a machine w/o memory protection
like the IBM-PC, it's important to note what the users are doing.  If
development work capable of crashing the system is going on, then obviously
you need to be careful -- though in practice I've found that only pretty
serious (and uncommon) disasters can crash the entire system (the user 
himself/herself who wrote the offending code is more likely to hang
themselves, not the system.)  On the other hand, for text editing/
word processing and other "canned" applications programs, there are no
problems (this includes all electronic mail functions, uucp, etc.)

Especially from the C compilers, you have to make a real effort to 
crash the system.

--Lauren--