From: "Chris Jones" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:29:49 -0000 Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury Lines: 16 Message-ID: <88udgt$74r$1@spruce.ukc.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: stue20c.ukc.ac.uk X-Trace: spruce.ukc.ac.uk 951236957 7323 129.12.226.12 (22 Feb 2000 16:29:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Feb 2000 16:29:17 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > And if MS really disabled apps from using h/w directly, I bet nobody would > go for Windows. But Win NT is much more stable than Win 9x. That should > give someone a clear idea that Win 9x is intentionally made _unstable_ for > compatibility with old programs (especially DOS programs). That's fair enough, in that Win9x allows DOS programs more freedom, so they are more likely to crash it. But what I can't understand is when Win32 programs crash Windows 9x completely - surely they are insulated much more than DOS apps, and shouldn't be able to do any damage at all. By the way, whatever happened to replying in threads - all the replies in this thread are replying to the original post rather than to the relevant post - it makes it quite hard to keep track of.