[Python-Dev] Preventing recursion core dumps (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:51:45 +1200 (NZST)

We don't limit the amount of memory you can allocate on all machines just because your program may run out of memory on some machine.

Legend has it that Steve Jobs tried to do something like that with the original 128K Macintosh. He was against making the machine expandable in any way, so that any program which ran one Mac would run on all Macs.

Didn't stay that way for very long...

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