Re: GSOS Crash Protection or Recovery

[amotyka <anthony.motyka@gmail.com>]

On Mar 31, 7:44 pm, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> Crash-protection implies having memory-protection, which is nearly always a
> hardware feature. With it, the process that crashed couldn't have
> overwritten any memory other than its own. Without, the crashed process
> could potentially have overwritten anything.
>
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What I meant was when running multiple applications under multiGS and
one of them crashes, you have several options to switch to one of the
other apps without having to restart, eg. by typing control-y and
enter, accessing the CDA or crashing into gsbug and entering a
location from which to carry on. Given the level of ingenuity employed
(or required) by iigs programmers, I'm interested to know if there is
some kind of init which would give this kind of function e.g. if you
are using AppleworksGS and it crashes, entering a certain keystroke
would reload the finder. Maybe I'm over-estimating the abilities of
the iigs, but I've always called it "the little machine that could"...
Anthony