From: Josh Anderson <randerso AT win DOT bright DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and Win95... a beginner
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:12:19 -0500
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Art S. Kagel wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Jason Dagit wrote:
> 
> > From: Jason Dagit <thedagit AT mail DOT coos DOT or DOT us>
> > To: Locke <lockeg AT usa DOT net>
> > Subject: Re: DJGPP and Win95... a beginner
> >
> > Locke wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any way I can run a djgpp program in windows 95?
> >
> > I realize that I am rambling but while I am at it...Has anyone with
> > Win95 ever left it running all night, not doing anything.  I left Win95
> > on several times through the night, monitor off, no screen saver, just
> > sitting there doing nothing.  When I turn the monitor on in the morning
> > it has crashed.  What happened to the systems that I hear stories of,
> > that if they crashed twice in 6 months they had a team on it trying to
> > figure out what was wrong with the system.  Yes I am refering to stories
> > about mainframes, but why can't PC's have software that is even half as
> > reliable as that?
> 
> PC's do have such software it is called Linux and Free BSD (AFAIK OpenDOS).
> It is just that such software does not come out of MS.
> 
> Art S. Kagel, kagel AT bloomberg DOT com

Actually, I've found that OpenDOS is unstable.  1 out of four times
"dir" is called, it crashes.  It's the same story with almost every
executable, I've long since deleted openDOS