New subject: "Real OS"

12 Jan 2001

From: Sellam Ismail &lt;foo(a)siconic.com&gt;
...

And for the most part that's what Windows delivers, albeit sometimes very
...
 poorly.  I can be playing Casino99, listening to
Napster tunes, surfing
the web, checking my e-mail, have a telnet session open, and have Outlook
...
 Express open, all concurrently.  But then when I close
down Casino99 while
...
 Napster is playing a tune, Napster crashes.  Then it
causes other shit to
...
 go haywire sometimes, resulting in the need to reboot. 
This is on a Dell
...
 Dimension 4100.  A nice box. 

Makes little difference what box it is one or mor eof the apps are broken
and killing others. Composted (yes cow dung is composted) as they are
would they run better under VMS or on a Sun, likely not just the core
dumps might be more interesting.

Then if you also looked even on a "Real OS, (tm)" youd find they still
buffer overflow, mem leak and leave garbage in memory or load broken
drivers.  Just a few of the far to common offencesI've seen.

...
 If I would trade convenience for stability and run
Linux instead, I could
...
 do all these things, only faster, better, and cheaper
(in terms of less
medication for my high blood pressure caused by every Windows reboot). 

Maybe, once you debug and recompile the apps.

Allison

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