Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/18/20:14:34
Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>> As much as we all love to bash MS, let's keep things in proper
>> perspective: they had an *enormously* hard problem on their hands.
>> Providing an OS which will run DOS, 16-bit Windows, and 32-bit Windows
>> programs on the same platform unaltered is a *daunting* task.
>
>True. Only someone with a good knowledge about protected mode would know
>how difficult this can be.
Mmh, so the guys at microsoft do not seem to have this knowledge?
IMO they should return to their desks and start a complete new design
& programming session. Maybe Win2030 will make it.
Yes, I agree, it's really hard to make such thing stable (especially
with all those neat DPMI-apps we write running in a DOS-box ;), but it
is a matter of a good design to make this thing stable and this should
be possible including a reasonable speed behind the design.
Actually it seems M$ favors speed over design and that's what makes
their "OS" crash.
Hey, how does VMWare do this? At least this one *seems* to be stable,
if I can install and run a whole _OS_ in a virtual machine. Have you
ever seen a BSoD inside there? It's cool seeing how you can completely
crash Windows without crashing the virtual machine it runs in. Really
cool. That leads me to one question: Which of the both can be
considered more stable? And I'd guess Microsoft is not the answer.
Vinzent.
--
MSDOS is not dead, it just smells that way.
-- Henry Spencer
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