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To: Monty Lenard who wrote (6388)	9/7/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

Monty, Stable, Robust computing platforms that exist today are numerous. Some on the run on PC are Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, SCO, QNX, & Non Stop Kernal. Most of these can't or only have limited support for WIN16 and WIN32 applications. Linux has the best software support with the most apps and the best windows emlator (WINE). On a non PC platform Solaris on Sun Sparc Hardware has the most software for it. Most of these would be hard to choose for a HOME PC as you can't run quicken, metastock. The point is that the technology exists. Those who have studied OS theory know that most of the significant advances to allow stable OS technology came out over 20 years ago with UNIX and VMS. I have used dozens of different computing platforms over the years and most are all significantly more crash resistant than windows. PC's are hard to critizie as they brought computing into the hands of the people at prices they could afford. But it time MS cleans up it act and produceses a solid robust OS. We have evaluated for years switching our CAD applications on unix to PC's because of hige costs advantages in hardware and software but all our evals contiously show that even NT is not stable enough to run simulations that 512M process size and run for 2-3 days. There are lots of computing platforms out there are no one fits all needs but most PC users have blinders on when it comes to the subject of computing because PC is all they see and know. PC = Computer = Windows. NOT! Sean