Re: Linux on Palm/Sony PDAs?

From: Randall Bart (Barticus_at_att.spam.net)
Date: 09/17/03

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    Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 03:56:36 GMT

    'Twas Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:23:33 GMT when all comp.os.linux.portable stood
    in awe as Steven Fisher <sdfisher@spamcop.net> uttered:

    >Did I say in there that it wouldn't crash? In fact, memory protection
    >guarantees *more* crashes, since the device will crash rather than allow
    >illegal operations.

    Memory protection should crash the misbehaving application, but the OS
    should stay up. 

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