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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (42012)	4/14/2000 12:15:00 AM
From: mozek	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Krnl386 is part of Win9x, not Win2000. Usually, when you see that error, it is caused by an application calling into the OS passing invalid data. Of course, it is possiblee that this error could very rarely be caused by the OS or device drivers, but odds are greatly against it. The biggest stability issues with Win9x are old, random device drivers and its inability to deal with errant applications. In response to a previous post recommending that Microsoft make it more clear that it is the application. In Windows 3.0, Microsoft had the UAE (Unrecoverable Application Error), which was basically the same error with a different name. They changed it because software ISVs rightly complained that at times the errors were caused by bugs in drivers or the OS. Microsoft decided to eliminate the name altogether while working to ensure that the errors were caused by the system as rarely as possible. As a result, Win95 was much more stable/robust than its predecessors and also any of the user friendly competition. Of course, since we're talking about a 5 year old release of an evolved PC OS, it's not surprising that the more fundamentally stable architecture of either Windows 2000 (Windows NT) or even versions of Unix or Linux have made it seem less stable in comparison. Mike

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