Tom Del Rosso wrote:
"flipper" wrote in message
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:02:25 +0000, Eeyore
wrote:
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. 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.


Depends which version. OS/2 2.0 was a bit unstable, though never in the
Win 95 class (even though it came out almost four years earlier than Win
95). OS/2 2.11 was, beyond comparison, the most stable OS I've ever
used. It needed rebooting after a power failure, but almost never
otherwise.

Warp 3.0 was pretty good, and Warp 4 rather better, but the Warp 4.5
Convenience Packs (2002 or thereabouts) are bulletproof. I use Warp CP
frequently to this day--the laptop I'm typing this on triple-boots XP,
Warp, and Fedora.

Win95 was much less stable than Win 3.1, if you were actually trying to
use it for anything. Win 98 wasn't great, but it was a *huge*
improvement over '95.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs