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deweerdt on May 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Samsung is hurting Android

I thought this was more due to the 'embedded' culture. After all, under VxWorks, isn't all memory addressable by all processes?

neckbeard on May 13, 2013 [–]

That's ancient VxWorks (sadly still shipping in some places, however).

More recent VxWorks - i.e. anything 6.x, since 2004 - has memory protection.

deweerdt on May 14, 2013 | [–]

He, it's been a while. Thanks for the correction.

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