31 Oct
1998
31 Oct
'98
1:36 p.m.
Allison J Parent wrote:
To me GPFs are applications that under VMS would
likely cause an
exception exit dump. GPFs are a poor error handling mech for programs
trying to do what should or are illegal things. It's easy to blame a
weak OS for crappy applications. Dos has few to no protections and
ragging on it is unfair.
DOS has few to no protections and ragging on it is very fair. Since
Windows has even less. I can deal with a program dumping. But when
the OS lets that program take a dozen others with it, something is
seriously broken. And it's usually not the hardware.
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