From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] EROS, Vapour
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:17:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109031116170.25593-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B8FF174.B3795343@null.net>
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> Eyal Lotem wrote:
> > The whole *point* behind Vapour is that it uses a safe language, rather
> > than damage-prevention hardware protection, ...
> > A serious advantage of Vapour for example, is since it doesn't reuqire
> > hardware protection, ...
>
> ? How on Earth can Vapour tell whether or not an access to e.g. serial
> port #0 is "safe"?
>
And why doesn't anybody ever seem to know that Burroughs plowed this
furrow for 25 years with no real good effect.
It's always fun when a user program brings down a mainframe due to a
compiler bug ...
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-03 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-29 9:04 Eyal Lotem
2001-08-29 13:40 ` Rick Hohensee
2001-08-29 14:42 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-08-29 15:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-31 8:45 ` Eyal Lotem
2001-09-03 8:39 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-09-03 17:17 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2001-08-29 14:37 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-08-29 15:46 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-29 15:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-30 15:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-08-30 15:57 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-08-30 18:19 [9fans] " David Gordon Hogan
2001-08-31 8:53 forsyth
2001-08-31 18:13 David Gordon Hogan
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