With apologies in advance to Alomex
According to PC Computing:
"NT has a long way to go before it consistently
achieves the uptime that Unix users take for granted. A
buggy driver or a memory conflict in NT's internals
typically results in STOP errors, also known as the Blue
Screen of Death, a fatal listing of hexadecimal memory
addresses and module names in bright white letters on
a blue background. Even more insidious are memory leaks,
which slowly drain resources from the operating system
until performance becomes so sluggish that rebooting is
the only alternative.
Unfortunately, the "Blue Screen of Death" isn't rare.
Microsoft has created a special Web-based troubleshooter
to help you decode the top 15 STOP error messages. Most
depressing of all, these crashes are so common that they've
earned the ultimate in backhanded compliments -- their own
widely used acronym, BSOD.
Maybe this explains why MSNBC replaced its own NT Servers with Unix installations. When asked about this by PC Week editors, MSNBC replied, "Simple. They didn't work"
This lack of faith isn't limited just to Microsoft's "partners". According to the Globe and Mail (Canada), a simple query into Microsoft's main "name server" reveals that this "mission-critical" task is being handled by a machine running Unix -- not the company's own Windows NT product.
Always cite your sources:
<http://www4.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea0797/nt/welcome.html>
Ian Bruce
New York, NY |
