From:	Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject:	Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
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Date:	Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:47:20 GMT
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:05:19 -0000, "Chris Jones" <cj7 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
wrote:

>> I installed RH linux6.0 and I still haven't got a crash for over 4 months.
>
>I can't comment about linux - I've never used it and I really don't want to
>learn another set of commands. If anyone writes a DOS emulator for Linux, I
>might give it a go :-)

Then what's DOSEmu?
Plus, some DOS apps run through Wine.

>> Actually Chris this is quite wrong, AFAIK due to windoze's intrinsically
>> faulty design one badly behaved app can indeed bring the whole system
>> crashing to the ground.
>
>This has never happened to me. The only time I've seen Win2k totally crash
>is if a full-screen DOS-app causes a fault in ntvdm - in which case, the
>whole system does die.

Major security hole.  To bring down the system, just bring in your
intentionally buggy DJGPP app.

>> there was this user who was complainig that RHIDE with windoze
>> gave him a back screen and then the system locked up.
>
>This is the example I was talking about above; however, if you run RHIDE
>windowed then all that happens is it kills the process when it crashes.

Can you run VGA (320x200) based DOS apps windowed with good enough
refresh rate?

>Look, it's only a figure of speech - I mean, it's a good OS.
>I wouldn't pay the $88 or whatever it costs.

$88?  I thought that NT-series releases were much more than 9x-series.

>> IMHO Windoze is just good to run the occasional game you have, It is
>> _not_ good for any serious work.
>
>I admit that it's not good for servers or time-critical applications. But
>for the average home user, who just wants to do some word processing and
>play a few games, Windows is the best out there.

that is, until  g n o m e  is finished...

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