Constants and Globals

[Laura Creighton]

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> When protection is *really* needed you use the operating system's
> primitives, (that is, addresses spaces), to provide it, not the language[1] 
> (Of course  current OS's have very coarse grained level of protection, which 
> means this sometimes sucks, but that is a discussion for comp.os.research, no
> t
> here :).
> 
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> Benno
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> [1] Of course I'm into OS design so I'm a little bit biased :)
> 
 
I haven't seen you around comp.os.plan9.   Just making sure you know
about it.  If you have been _making_ some designs, that crowd wants to
hear about it -- though we have a fair amount of 'If it isn't from
Bell Labs 1127 it is garbage' groupies on the list, there are plenty
of real people.

Laura Creighton