>>It is not the fault of the OS, it is the fault of the poorly written application. That being said, the OS should be able to handle bad software and not crash. NT does this very well. But every OS has bugs which leave it open to bad behaving apps.
I have to disagree. The OS being such an important piece of the puzzle, should by all means guard against most, if not all badly behaving apps. Blaming it on the app is like justifying, after being hit by the enemy's A bomb"'but, but, it's their fault.. they attacked us from a direction we weren't covering". Over a period of 18 months, I've used an HPUX running concurrently a web server, NetDynamics app server, Macintosh emulation, FrameBuilder, and other processes, without having a signle crash. When one app freezes/crashes it does so peacefully. On the NT side, I used one much more casually, yet it froze/crashed many times. I haven't a clue why.
I agree, every OS has bugs, but in my experience windows 95/NT are less stable than UNIX. |
