Re: Pragmatic Requirements Summary : update

--- In [email protected], "Aryeh M. Friedman" 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > No, you don't.  You need a machanism to access physical memory 
locations.  
> > For example, "peek" & "poke" in various versions of Microsoft 
Basic.  I'll 
> > admit you need better mechanisms than those, but still the number 
of 
> > places that need to access physical memory, even in an OS, is 
relatively 
> > small.
> 
> 	Except for a personal dislike of giving people real power to 
right code
> what is your exact problem with direct memory access?
> 
> 	--Aryeh

 Ok lets soften this a bit. Are there specific areas that you think 
will cuase trouble if we grant direct memory access. If so how do you 
think the peek/poke/etc solves this problem


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