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- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Multi Line BBS
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <dillon.0t3q@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- References: <OTTO.92Dec10034017@tukki.jyu.fi> <1992Dec18.080158.19384@netcom.com> <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <1992Dec20.152822.29515@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:33:24 PST
- Organization: Not an Organization
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- In article <1992Dec20.152822.29515@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >In article <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- >>
- >> * If you fill up the disk and the NeXT runs out of swap it crashes
- >> hard.
- >> * No resource limits (NeXT ignores everything but the stack size limit)
- >> * No process/thread limits
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
- >
- > Surely you jest. Surely, certainly, the OS of the future is
- > not so threadbare that it lacks features that most versions
- > of UNIX have these days..?
-
- What I mean to say is that the NeXT will gladly allow you to fork
- processes and threads until it runs out of table space or memory, then
- it crashes.
-
- -Matt
-
- > Rule 1: "Don't have more children than you can feed."
- > Nuclear redevelopment for a better world!
-
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