Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/02/25/04:39:58
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> What else do you expect from a "DOZE" box? <g> Maybe this is fate
> whispering in your ear to "get Linux now" :-)
Actually, in my experience, the DOS box is quite stable. I'm routinely
running Emacs for days on end without shutting down the machine, and it
rarely, if at all, hangs the DOS box, even when there are blatant bugs.
Most bugs either abort Emacs or cause the "This program performed an
illegal operation" dialog to pop up. And with stable versions of Emacs,
it just works; I have never seen a crash that didn't have a good reason.
Most of the instability of Windows comes from the system VM and from the
fact that every installation of a Windows program overwrites some core
system DLLs. The other VMs (read: DOS boxes) are usually quite stable.
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