> From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
> >
> >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.
>
Real OS's (TM) don't let applications corrupted memory that they don't own
and they enforce memory protection and priviledge with EXTREME
PREJUDICE.
If Netscape pukes on FreeBSD the rest of the tcp/ip stack and the FTP
I'm running continue. If XFree86 dumps -- sendmail still continues.
I've seen Windows and NT loose all network connectivity after an app
blows up. I guess it looses access to the DLL's with the IP stack
code. I guess Unix had it right putting the network in the kernel.
--Bill
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bpechter_at_monmouth.com | FreeBSD since 1.0.2, Linux since 0.99.10
Brainbench MVP | Unix Sys Admin since Sys V/BSD 4.2
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Received on Sat Jan 13 2001 - 08:59:09 GMT