You'd think that, but protected memory has never been (much of) a thing with AMOS. There used to be an ugly bug where a POKE from AlphaBASIC could get you opera

You'd think that, but protected memory has never been (much of) a thing with AMOS. There used to be an ugly bug where a POKE from AlphaBASIC could get you operator, for example. That got closed but similar exploits are undoubtedly possible, so most of the VARs dealt with the problem by just never letting users near a dot prompt (recall they just served vertical markets with their own bespoke software like PoS, CRM, call management, etc.).