[geeks] OSX reminding me of windows?

[Shannon]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:38:35AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> That's really strange.  I had a G4 Cube, and now a dual 867 MDD tower,
> and I've *never* had issues like that.  Kernel-paniced once when I was
> doing lots of stuff and was hot-plugging USB stuff like mad, but other
> than that I've had no problems..  Going on a year and a half now..

That's still pretty bad, though MacOS X is certainly not alone.

I wonder if it is something about their hardware though? They have
definitely worked on it, since I can no longer crash the machines in the
local CompUSA. Took them forever to upgrade so I could play with the
next version.  It used to be that I could kill one just playing with
the machine while a friend yanked USB stuff in and out.

However, other OS I've killed doing this include:

* Windows 2000 and XP
* FreeBSD (4.7 will die on boot if I have my USB hub plugged in)

So far I've not crashed Linux like this, but I have wedged the device
driver so that a reboot was needed.

Is USB hardware that bad, or is it still just bad software?



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