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Subject: Re: Hurry up to get the latest virus from Microsoft! :) (NT)

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 09:36:00 09/13/02

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On September 13, 2002 at 11:27:43, Christophe Theron wrote:

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>An buggy application can corrupt the OS and crash every other running
>application.

This is not really true in WinNT kernel (it was true with Win9x, however).
AFAIK, the only way to do something like this would be to completely halt some
hardware device (which is caused by bad drivers, written most often by the
hardware manufacturer).  This is possible in Linux as well.

>Because of this, Windows hardly deserves to be called an "OS".
>
>My computer, when running Windows, crashes 10 times a day. Sometimes, just
>closing an Internet connection crashes the system.

>I have *NEVER* seen this under Linux.

I've had WindowsXP on my computer since the day it was released.  It has never
once crashed because of a fault in the OS.  Obviously, you must be doing
something wrong for your system to crash so much.

Sure, I have some problems with Microsoft - I'm not their cheerleader or
anything either.  Many versions of Windows sucked almost to the point of being
unusable.  But your anti-Microsoft rants are getting tiresome, Christophe.
Peter was almost completely correct in what he said, and all you do is treat him
like a moron because you can't make your own system work correctly with MS
software.



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