Here I Am

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Tue Jan 29 05:03:11 2002

At 07:38 AM 23/01/2002 -0700, emanuel stiebler wrote:
>Jay West wrote:
> >
> > There is something to be said for not just trying to
> > run on everything under the sun - and that directly translates into
> > stability of the OS.
>
>So, suddenly windows runs stable, just because they support x86 only ?

Well NT on Alpha was significantly more stable than NT on Intel mainly
because there were only a limited number of supported (or even available)
configurations. What amazes me about Windows is not that it crashes often
but that it runs at all given the mix of hardware that it attempts to support.

Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
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