From: Vinzent Hoefler Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:54:05 +0100 Organization: JeLlyFish software Lines: 36 Message-ID: <88j4ti$ef0$2@news02.btx.dtag.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news02.btx.dtag.de 950867698 14816 777000109768-0001 000218 09:54:58 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT t-online DOT de X-Sender: 777000109768-0001 AT t-dialin DOT net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/16.534 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Prashant TR wrote: >> As much as we all love to bash MS, let's keep things in proper >> perspective: they had an *enormously* hard problem on their hands. >> Providing an OS which will run DOS, 16-bit Windows, and 32-bit Windows >> programs on the same platform unaltered is a *daunting* task. > >True. Only someone with a good knowledge about protected mode would know >how difficult this can be. Mmh, so the guys at microsoft do not seem to have this knowledge? IMO they should return to their desks and start a complete new design & programming session. Maybe Win2030 will make it. Yes, I agree, it's really hard to make such thing stable (especially with all those neat DPMI-apps we write running in a DOS-box ;), but it is a matter of a good design to make this thing stable and this should be possible including a reasonable speed behind the design. Actually it seems M$ 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