<SPAN
class=170130118-17082001>Exactly. There is bad code (and drivers)
everywhere. Windows OS does not protect itself as well as the unix
OS. NT, 2000 and XP are all better than 98 in this realm, however.
MS is finally getting the point. But the point is valid. A bad
program should core itself, not crash the OS. It is up the OS to prevent
this. I have worked on alot unix flavors in the past and all of them
behave better than MS in this aspect.
<SPAN
class=170130118-17082001>
As far
as which OS is best... "it depends" - on what you want to
accomplish...
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[mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Adams, Matthew (GEA,
088130)Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:48 PMTo: Multiple
recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: but will it run
windows?
I gotta disagree with you on one particular point here.
When an application gets a error and OS crashes, it IS
the OS fault. The OS should be written in such a
way that when an application error occurs, the OS
doesn't have to be rebooted. I believe it IS the
OSes fault.
- Matt Adams - GE Appliances -
matt.adams_at_appl.ge.com Doing linear scans over an
associative array is like trying to club
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- Larry Wall (creator of Perl)
> -----Original Message----- >
From: Christopher Spence [<A
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> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:35 PM <FONT
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> > No I did not say
that. > > What I
am saying, is most people install 100 programs, one of <FONT
size=2>> them acts like > crap and they blame it
on the OS. > > Because
there is 5 million people programming for Win32 and probably 2
> million of them suck, that is not at all the OS's
fault. > > The problem
(in my opinion) stems from there is too many >
people coding for > the os and too many hardware
manufactors putting out code and > hardware.
It > is almost impossible to guarentee
compatability, much less > competent code.
> > There api is fairly open,
it is almost completely published. > Although it is
not open source or anything of that nature. >
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> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:33 PM <FONT
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size=2>> > > So
you're saying, unless you run only M$ products it still <FONT
size=2>> sucks. They need > to tighten up
and open up the API's. Then windows would be great. <FONT
size=2>> > --Scott >
> > Christopher Spence
wrote: > > > > I
am much a unix person over M$, but the simple fact is <FONT
size=2>> Win32 serves > > many
purposes. And it crashing all the time is a fairy <FONT
size=2>> tail that unix > > people like to
tell. Yeah, it isn't as stable as unix, and most of <FONT
size=2>> > the problems are related to software and drivers which have
> nothing to > > do
with the OS. > > >
> Christopher R. Spence > > Oracle DBA
> > > <FONT
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:27 AM > > To:
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Christopher Spence [<A
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> > > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 10:51 AM
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windows? > > > >
> > I hate windows and all it stands for, but I can't stand
> when people > >
> say it crashes all the time and completely useless. <FONT
size=2>> > > > OK, I stand corrected.
Windows crashes just half of the > time and if it
> > wasn't for Windows, I'd have to explain how
to actually use > a computer <FONT
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marvelous, > > although somewhat overpriced
alternative for the Sony's PS2. > > Hopefully,
the statement above will mitigate your feelings >
toward us, > > the poor Unix geeks that
use unix to provide for our > everyday's bread
> > and Dom Perignon. <FONT
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