lauren%rand-unix@vortex.UUCP (02/08/84)
When looking at multi-user operations on a machine w/o memory protection like the IBM-PC, it's important to note what the users are doing. If development work capable of crashing the system is going on, then obviously you need to be careful -- though in practice I've found that only pretty serious (and uncommon) disasters can crash the entire system (the user himself/herself who wrote the offending code is more likely to hang themselves, not the system.) On the other hand, for text editing/ word processing and other "canned" applications programs, there are no problems (this includes all electronic mail functions, uucp, etc.) Especially from the C compilers, you have to make a real effort to crash the system. --Lauren--