> And to refer to Carl's post, there do exist OS's that will handle an
> out-of-memory condition, but they aren't of the Unix family.  VMS or NSK,
> and maybe MPE will, I believe.  

I don't know anything about NSK or MPE; but Alan Cox claims he can crash VMS
(and any other OS) with a carefully constructed memory attack. 

Carl. 
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