CompuServe Messages

Good point. The Amiga's multitasking is far more valuable to me than would be memory protection: Why have dedicated circuitry check the integrity of your programs millions of times/second when you can do that yourself in one session of putting the program through its paces? A person bitching about data lost due to a crash is just as bad as someone who uses a hard disk error as an excuse for losing a week-old data file; There is no excuse for not regulary saving your work (hotkey or automatic) or performing daily, incremental backups. MMUs are probably great for memory remapping and debugging/testing, but for regular use it's a crutch that will breed careless programming. IMHO, among the Amiga's biggest shortcomings are not the lack memory-protection or pre-emptive virtual memory swapping, but that memory fragmentation which we have all been living with.