OT! RE: Nuke Richmond (Long)

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sat Jan 13 14:44:23 2001

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>

>> 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.
>
>What's worse? An app that crashes, or an OS that crashes because an app
>misbehaves?


OS dies from bad app is clearly the worst case. It can hammer the
filesystem
and thats always messy. NT4 is clearly way better on that over W9x. The
acid test for both (from work experience) is start editing a document
with
WORD, running Paradox-9 or Delphi and then pull the plug out of the wall.
The W95 box generally does bad stuff while the NT4 box seems to shrug it
off loosing only unsaved work. W9x is not robust, never said it was.

>From testing OS/2 is in the NT4 response catagory to unexpected power
fails
The various unix clones seem to take it well but, I havent tested it as
hard.

Allison
Received on Sat Jan 13 2001 - 14:44:23 GMT