This is one of the advantages of Netscape on the classic Mac OS. Any
application creates it's own memory partition and only the most remarkably
buggy apps will overwrite another app's partition (maybe something not "32-bit
clean"?). Netscape and some others go one step further. Once it has a
partition, it never releases it back to the system*. If you quit NS and
restart it, it will use exactly the same space it previously occupied. I
suspect that one reason NS will freeze the system if you restart it after it
crashes is that it tries to reclaim that space, but the system sees as a "new"
app trying to overwrite another's partition and it traps the protection
violation. I don't necessarily reboot immediately after all apps abend, but I
would never try to run some, like NS, without rebooting.
*So, if you've allocated 24 MB of your 128 MB to Netscape and then close it,
you will not get that memory back for other applications without rebooting.
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>
> All systems can do with these bad app-les is to
> quarrantine them and sweep up the debris. Win NT/2K,
> OSX, Linux etc can do that. Mac System/OS 9.1 and
> older and WinMe/9x/3.xx can't. Its still best to
> reboot after an app crashes, no telling what little
> "nuggets" its left behind just waiting to cause
> some normally stable app to blow up.
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