[geeks] Info for Cheap/Acceptable PC upgrades

[Andrew Weiss]

Yes, but the fact that NT has kernel and user mode somewhat mitigates 
that.  Badly written drivers bring NT down (random crashes you're 
talking about... coupled with possibly bad hardware).  A program that is 
badly written in user space will not ever bring the system down unless 
it manages to run long enough that it tickles the hardware portion... 
(consuming system resources through memory leaks etc.)  Usually such 
badly written apps crash themselves long before they down the OS.  On my 
Dual Pro Intel PR440 I've only had a blue screen from the earlier nVidia 
Detonator drivers and my TNT1 (which is now long gone... It's a GeForce 
2MX and has no problems now)...nothing else.  On my father's Dell's in 
his office he occasionally has them from bad SCSI drivers and the Zip 
drive, and/or mixed NT 4.0 and 2000 print drivers (before 2000, NT 4.0 
placed the print drivers in kernel mode... how dumb is that?)

Andrew

On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 06:00 AM, David Cantrell wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:02:33PM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>> Maybe he's talking about Windows ME... Win2K is an NT system which by
>> default is better than a DOS based system for stability and security.
>
> Both NT and DOS can be brought down by badly written applications.  So
> neither of them wins out there.  NT, however, can randomly bring itself
> down, something which I have never seen DOS do.  Therefore, DOS is more
> stable.
>
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