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To: dybdahl who wrote (63222)	11/21/2001 5:55:31 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) of 74651

I don't know how it is on PS2, but on PlayStation I, every application (i.e. game) shipped on a CD that also contained the Operating System. So you had ZERO compatibility problems unless you were trying to support custom devices like force-feedback joysticks. You shipped the app with the version of the OS that you had tested on, and it just worked. PSX is more stable than desktop OSes not because it's written better--it's definitely not a more stable OS--but because game developers don't ship until they've worked around the bugs that affect their game, in the single version of the OS that they ship with. This is NOT a good strategy for desktop software. You really do need a stable OS on your desktop. That's why the stability advantage goes easily to the open-source, massively debugged systems like Linux and Mac OS X's BSD UNIX. There were PhD computer scientists debugging UNIX before Microsoft's founders had committed their first crime. Dave

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