1. Memory protection keeps one errant application from wildly crashing the entire computer.2. Under OS X, the Mac will finally get memory protection and pre-emptive multitasking. 3. On Unix-like systems, the mprotect system call is used to control memory protection . 4. Various methods of memory protection exist, including memory segmentation and paging. 5. Memory protection enables the kernel to limit a process'access to the computer's memory.6. :: Depends on the processor architecture and how the memory protection is set. 7. Real mode provides no support for memory protection , multitasking, or code privilege levels. 8. :: We have an article on memory protection that answers most of your question. 9. On operating systems without memory protection , this could be any process on the system. 10. For starters, the system introduces something called memory protection .