From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: self-hosting gc References: <87elj5i2rf.fsf@becket.becket.net> <87elj5glx5.fsf@becket.becket.net> <87g03kd1m5.fsf@baguette.webspeed.dk> <5lzo1nhvnh.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <3C8821C9.3080608@cam.ac.uk> <2hwuwnjgri.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3224587620423566@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 14:46:51 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1015598811 193.71.199.50 (Fri, 08 Mar 2002 15:46:51 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 15:46:51 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:28116 * Frode Vatvedt Fjeld | The old lisp machines lacked OS protection mechanisms like address | spaces, didn't they? Did they suffer substantially from this design? They would today, since all kinds of creep can and do get access to computers. Besides, if anyone would implement a system that invites intrusion and viruses and malicious abuse and is completely helpless in the face of such abuse, they would be violating a number of Microsoft patents on how _not_ to design software. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.