RE: Another new feature(Self Healing)

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually MS is now preventing you from doing something that no one is stupid
enough to do on an AS/400. However, if you tried to do it on the 400 you
would royally screw the machine up, trust me I speak from experience.... 

Ever try to replace program QMNSYSRQ (System request program)??? Don't! Long
Long ago someone tried to do just that and boy oh boy what a mistake. No,
you can't simply save the object, screw with it, and then restore the
object. The address in the System Entry Point Table won't be correct.
Several hours later IBM reconstructed the SEPT. Imagine if they tried to
screw with QDBGETSQ or some other "more important" program.

-Walden

-----Original Message-----
From: MacWheel99@aol.com [mailto:MacWheel99@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:02 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Another new feature(Self Healing)


Two questions.
1. Does this make Win 2K Pro competitive with OS/400 99%+ uptime?
2. Is the MS marketing of Win 2K Pro saying or implying that all prior 
versions of Win did not have the essential reliability needed for business 
users?

>     that make it most
>     reliable desktop operating system Microsoft has ever produced. On
>     comparative reliability tests conducted by ZD Labs, the average
>     system uptime of Windows 2000 Professional was over 50 times that
>     of Windows 98 and 17 times that of Windows NT Workstation 4.0.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
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