On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:48:42 -0000, flipper wrote:

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 19:34:45 -0500, "Tom Del Rosso"
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:02:25 +0000, Eeyore
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Well..... I never recall DOS crashing !

There's a good reason for that. DOS doesn't 'do' much of anything.

Oh, I remember it crashing and freezing, but it was always because of the
app, not the OS.

As you just said, you remember the *app* crashing and freezing.

DOS was (is) basically a program loader and control of the machine
goes to the app so unless, in it's brain dead stupor as it crashes, it
hands control back to the CLI then that's all she wrote.

What about managing TSRs?

With Windows the component that crashes most, on my PC, is
the Explorer shell.

When I used OS/2 it was also the shell (Presentation Manager) that crashed
the most. Jerry Pournelle loved OS/2 but commented on how unstable PM was.
It crashed a lot less than Windows of the time (either 95 or NT) but it had
the unfortunate habit of overwriting the MBR with whatever file I was trying
to save when it crashed.

Come to think of it, pre-95 Windows was very unreliable, but it was only a
DOS shell.




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