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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (1331)	6/12/1998 10:36:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Forgot to mention in my last posts.... One of the main reasons for this instability in my opionion is that NT's kernal has at least 36 function/method calls that don't check whether their aguments are valid. Therefore any bad pointer passed by the calling function/method can cause a fatal exception to the OS. www.ntinternals.com used to have detailed info NT's internal workings. Microsoft's lawyers made them remove that. They posted several 5 line C program that could crash NT and another that exploited the nasty processor affinity bug. Last I knew none of these had been fixed. The site still has lots of cool NT gadgets but not their real stuff like they used too... Sean Sean

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (1331)	6/13/1998 12:44:00 AM
From: Dave Bissett	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Sean - Thanks for your observations about RTTrader. I was wondering how long the RT version has been out? The website mentions that the RT version is beta, plus it's damn hard to find since it's not really on Kanisa's home page. I was only able to find it linking off of the FAQ page. Another headache you didn't mention are the highlight bars that fly around the quote page. Tech support said these bars indicate incoming data but they are unbelievably distracting IMO, and I've not found a way to turn them off. I thought I'd be smart and set the highlight color to white, but the black on white text reverses when the white highlight bar hits a stock effectively making the quote disappear! You're sure right about the screen layouts tho...extremely neat. DB