From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <88e3p7$igj$1 AT spruce DOT ukc DOT ac DOT uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 54 X-Trace: +4awYSfc9t/np27IkW4Qp201ZVEaipR6C82ANJOB+vUimlV644cJcZ1FMac03widLE4XTzIKTm48!ejQHvKdLgdumwdeYhiK01o8xRXxA1LW5fEU/h1XG3z8QQvn6QL5l9nKvepLhvt1fARvJ/O2VZ+0K!JxDtZvU= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:47:20 GMT Distribution: world Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:47:20 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:05:19 -0000, "Chris Jones" 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... -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/