| [Rant] Microsoft extend their monopolistic behaviours (again) | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 11-Aug-2002 13:33 GMT by Cyberwlf | 56 comments
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Microsoft have cracked down on retailers trying to sell alternate OS's when they sign a contract to sell Windoze. (This theoretically effecting people selling Amithlon pre-installed, or the likes). Essentially saying... :
(from slashdot.org) "Some Sys Admin sent in an email that he got from Dell which basically says Microsoft will no longer allow Dell to sell PCs without an operating system. " - But if you think this was only Dell, the wording seems to effect all retailers, read article for more information: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/1420208.
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| Posted by Kjetil on 14-Aug-2002 04:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 30 (hgm):
The fact that you can turn on/off memory protection don’t make it less MP,
What you failed to say is that 68k programs do not have MP, this is true, after all you can’t have memory protection on 68k programs as they do not use an modern argument passing system it is totally based on shard memory all the way, an there is no track record in 68k so programs can’t free memory from crashed 68k programs, butt this is the past, most 68k programs will be absolute when they get ported to PPC OS4.0 binary or when there comes an compotator to the old program’s, in the end you most likely wont run Any 68k programs, just like you do not run any win31 programs win windows2000, they are simply out dated.
And as far at turning on / off memory protection is concerned, there is no need to turn off memory protection unless you are making an patch or making an update for the OS, when you are finished with product you simply get Ainc to include it in the new Exec kernel, this way every one else can have it turned on, to protect there system from crashes.
Well what I’m saying it is and advantage to be able to turn on and off MP, not a disadvantage. |
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