> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
> Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You have to consider the probability of an event occuring, not just
> > the possibility that the event might occur. If the probability is
> > one in a million years, then it is not something you need to worry
> > about relative to other things that, perhaps, you *should* be worrying
> > about.
>
> Having been a systems programmer and systems administrator at a
> university computer science department, dealing with large (well,
> they were large back then :-) systems where 60 students log in
That's not very large and wasn't back then either, even for low budget
hardware. We ran 33 users on a 128KB PDP 11/45 when I worked at Sidereal
in Portland (and people who attempted to use vi were taken out behind the
woodshed and dealt with).
> simultaneously to do their "Data Structures in C++" homework, I
> can guarantee you that the probability that someone else's buggy
> program will kill your unrelated application is a lot more than
> "once in a million years".
The purpose of a multiprogramming OS is to keep this from happening. If it
happens, you've incorrectly configured the OS or the OS needs some
rethinking. As a general rule.
This discussion has begun to really be unproductive. But it was
interesting to see that it occurred at all.
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