Ancient machines turning on (was Re: eBay strikes again...)

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Sat Oct 31 21:36:30 1998

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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Received on Sat Oct 31 1998 - 21:36:30 GMT

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