Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 13:54:56 01/17/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 16:25:53, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 17, 2001 at 16:05:41, Ed Schröder wrote: >[snip] >>>Video games also >>>violate memory all the time and are a prime example of how dangerous people who >>>don't know how to program can be. That's probably somewhat of an exaggeration, >>>but in general the quality of video games is the lowest of all. >> >>Examples? > >My youngest son buys video games all the time and puts them on one of the >computers at home. They usually won't run under NT, but when they do, it is not >at all unusual to have a memory violation error. Fortunately, NT is good enough >to trap it and not bring the whole system down. > >On two occasions, I was annoyed enough to use bounds checker to find the actual >address of the thing causing the violation and send email to the game >manufacturer. In neither case did I even get any kind of sensible answer from >the vendor. > >I have Windows 2K on one of my machines at home. Games seem to run on it more >often than NT. But that makes my youngest son happy and me just mildly annoyed. > At the moment its Windows ME on both my PC's at home and they rarly crashes! Anyway, you would recomend Win 2K for my home PC? I saw Linux running Star Office on a PC at work, and it was the slowest combination I ever saw. Running something like that must feel like a self inflicted nife stab every time you use your PC! But win 2K is OK on speed? Torstein >[snip]
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