28.04.2009 11:50 Uhr, Quelle: MacFixIt

Tackling kernel panics, hangs, and unexpected quits.

In the Classic Mac OS, when an application crashed it would usually take down the whole system, requiring a hard reset. Apple largely tackled this in OS X by basing the system off of a UNIX kernel, which basically runs each system process more independently, almost like individual applications. Memory is protected and other resources are shared rather than taken over and as such, an individual application or system process shouldn't take down the whole system when it crashes. There are several crash scenarios that will happen in OS X, and while most should not take down the system, there are a couple that can.

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