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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
> > >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.
>
> Actually, it is much harder to crash Windows (both 9X and NT) with a
> DJGPP application than with a Windows application.  DOS apps are
> insulated from the system much better than Windows apps.

That's only true if you don't play with interrupts nor hardware nor video. So
I agree if you are talking about most GNU tools, but disagree if you include
Allegro aplications ;-)
A technical note: At least in Win 3.1 (and I think W9x is included for
compatibility) Windows applications shares the LDT so you can easilly use a
descriptor that belongs to other application ... ouch!

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