Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hpcea!hpcilzb!tedj From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Is it DANGEROUS to program your Mac...? Message-ID: <870062@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Date: 7 Dec 87 17:20:21 GMT References: <870057@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA Lines: 22 / hpcilzb:comp.sys.mac / oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) / 8:34 am Dec 5, 1987 / In article <870057@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes: >A mac, fat mac, macPlus, or SE does not provide as much control over the >waveform, so you should be safe. One exception: I have crashed the machine >so bad that I've lost horizontal synch. (Symptom: a dim screen with a patterns >of bright, almost horizontal lines (at 25 degree) on the screen. If you see >this, reboot immediately!) [stuff deleted...] >If you are doing application programming, don't worry about this sort of >thing. My experience has been that you are unlikely to trigger something >disasterous unless you are writing near a danger area. For example, [stuff deleted...] Couldn't ANY bug (e.g., a function call with the wrong type of argument) which does a write turn out to be a pathological monster and write near a danger area? -Ted