Re: Windows As A Development Workstation (was PDM/SEU)

     I think the point of the previous message (at least, the way I read 
     it) is this:  Windows has been around, in one form or another, since 
     the early nineties.  Now, a decade later, they seem to have finally 
     come up with a version that can handle an application crashing without 
     taking down the whole OS with it.
     
     Well, whoop-de-doo.  That's a feature that *real* operating systems 
     have had since version 1.0.  It's incredible that it should be 
     considered a selling point.
     
     -- 
     Paul


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Subject: Re: Windows As A Development Workstation (was  PDM/SEU)
Author:  "John Taylor" <john.taylor@telusplanet.net> at INTERNET
Date:    30-05-00 12:54 pm


     
> At 09:29 AM 5/30/00 -0600, you wrote: 
>
> >...................... While individual applications still crash with the 
same
> >frequency as before, none of them has brought down the OS yet. 
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >John Taylor
> >Canada
> >
> >Isn't this a giant step for humankind? 
>
> EndreE
     
You know, I really hate being placed in the position of having to come to 
the defense of an MS product, but that was a cheap shot that has no merit.
     
Who among us has not seen a poorly written application on the AS/400? I 
couldn't begin to count the number of times that I've seen an unhandled 
exception message caused by some RPG programmer who was to lazy to code an 
error handler. The saving grace was that OS/400 isolated the program and 
allowed it to be brought down without affecting any other jobs on the 
system. Do you actually expect OS/400 to prevent an application program from 
crashing? Of course not. So why do you expect it from Windows, or *nix or, 
(insert your favourite OS here)?
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