Mention that Multics did not solve the problem of full access to the address space.

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Robert Strandh 6 years ago
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@ -273,7 +273,9 @@ replaced without restarting the system. The system could still crash,
of course, if some essential system-wide data structure was corrupted,
but most of the time, only the user-level process that issued the
request would crash, simply because the problem was limited to the
address space of a single process.
address space of a single process. Multics did not have a kernel, but
it still had the problem of full access to its own address space, so
that the stack could be overwritten by a defective end-user program.
\section{Objectives for a Lisp operating system}

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