>Memory protection doesn't prevent crashes, it merely catches them. Memory protection protects one program from crashing another. If you structure the OS in a good way the protection will make sure that the computer never craches, since the core will be small enough to keep almoast bug-free. Windows obviously hasn't a good structured OS model that makes the memory protection really protect one program from another. Or protect the OS from programs.
So IRL it's really "pseudo memory protection". / John
