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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:42:31 GMT
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- In article <trimble.724558422@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu> trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes:
-
- > I just want to point out that Windows, although it may be an OS of
- > sorts (virtual memory is the only thing that warrants this claim), is
- > not a good OS at all. There is no memory protection! It's totally
- > ridiculous that one crash actually brings down the system. This
- > is my main gripe about the MacOS as well - so don't think I'm just
- > picking on Windows.
-
- Not just virtual memory, but its own memory management alto-
- gether.
-
- There are crashes and there are crashes. When most apps crash
- they usually cause a "GPF" and the rest of Windows goes on its
- merry way. System 7 also seems to exhibit the same behavior
- (WP 2.1 seems to crash pretty often around here. Luckily it
- has online backup.). When something quits responding to keyboard
- input you can hit ctrl-alt-del and kill just the app. Under
- System 7 you can hit cmd-option-ctrl-esc and it'll do the same
- thing.
-
- Yes, both Windows and System 7 are more crash-prone than OS/2
- since they don't have memory protection. But one can also run
- into crash problems with OS/2 (the Novell requestor is a good
- example).
-
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