What are the really unusual or weird computers?

Sridhar Ayengar writes: I beg to differ. I've developed code primarily on NT-based Windows for over ten years now in a variety of languages for a variety of purposes and not ONCE have I managed to write userland code that was capable of causing a hard-stop (BSOD, freezing). In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the ONLY crashes I've gotten over the last ten years have been due to terrible 3rd party drivers (Creative's drivers for the SBLive were notoriously bad, and for awhile around the win2k timeframe, nVidia's drivers were TERRIBLE on multiproc systems). This is unfortunate, but these problems have since been resolved and these days I can't even recall the last BSOD I've gotten. If you're honestly crashing the OS fairly regularly (esp. w/Java code) then I'd definitely suggest investigating the STOP code you're getting, and checking your hardware out for faults. And update your drivers. Either that or stop running Windows 95 :). I realize it's par for the course on a list like this to bash anything Microsoft, but I think the "it crashes ALL THE TIME" argument is no longer valid. It's not like there aren't plenty of other complaints to make :). - Josh