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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (172)	10/29/1997 4:38:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

>>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.

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (172)	1/27/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: K. M. Strickler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Just cruisin' some old messages! I agree w/you about the applications possibility for causing the crash, instead of the kernel being at fault, and that NT protects itself pretty well. The problem that I see is that there a multitude of people that are continuously 'attacking' the operating system, trying to see if they can 'hack' in and create problems. On the one hand, it makes the producer work to make the software more 'robust' and prevent these kinds of attacks resulting in a 'better operating system' for all of us, yet on the other hand until the 'holes' are plugged there is certainly a lot of 'negative' press! Nothing checks the software 'paths' like the public! It is easy to 'condem' code that another has written, especially when you remember that 'Nothing is too tough for the person that doesn't have to do it!' Have a great day! Ken