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To: Ming Wu who wrote (3662)	8/21/1997 11:46:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	of 64865

Ming, I think that the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes. I am a Windows NT user (I am using Windows NT Server right now - I run it on my main machine at home) and have NOT experience ANY crashes of NT 4.0 ever. And I don't know anyone who has. I have experienced frequent "WIN16" or "WOW" crashes, which have always been recoverable. (e.g. the offending program and/or the WOW subsystem were killed and restarted by NT.) These occur when using ill-behaved 16-bit Windows programs. Crashes of 32-bit software have always been limited to the particular package that crashed. (Did not require a reboot.) On the other hand, installation on NT leaves a lot to be desired - many programs still require a reboot after installation. This is very annoying, and may be why Microsoft speed-up the boot time. Except when I install such software, though, I never reboot, and have had the system up for several days at a time without any problems. (Never had it up longer than that because of software installation...) I have also used Solaris extensively, and know of instances where it has been up for several months without a reboot. Sun/Solaris is my favored platform for Internet servers - I cannot imagine running a web site on NT - and probably would be for client/server database computing. (Though I'm not involved in the latter.)

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