Re: Windows BSOD vs. AS/400

Tom,

----- Original Message -----
From: <Tom.Clements@helpsystems.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 07:33
Subject: Re: Windows BSOD vs. AS/400


> I'd say I've had more problems with buggy Microsoft software than I've had
> with buggy third-party apps. I love it when I get the dialog telling me
> 'Microsquirt X has caused a general protection fault, contact the
> manufacturer'.

I'm not sure if you realize this, but that message doesn't necessarily mean
that it's MS' software at fault. Many of those errors are due to memory heap
corruption, which doesn't necessarily manifest itself as an error in the
offending application. It's for that very reason that these types of
problems are notoriously difficult to track down. Of course, the OS should
protect against such errors. Win9x flavours don't, and even NT didn't do a
very good job of it. W2K is substantially better in this area.


Regards,

John Taylor
Canada



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