Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/20/14:34:08
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, salvador wrote:
> > Actually, it is much harder to crash Windows (both 9X and NT) with a
> > DJGPP application than with a Windows application. DOS apps are
> > insulated from the system much better than Windows apps.
>
> That's only true if you don't play with interrupts nor hardware nor video.
Exactly. And how many programs on Linux do that? About zero.
A protected-mode OS that lets you play with hardware as much as
Windows does doesn't stand a chance to be as stable as Linux.
> A technical note: At least in Win 3.1 (and I think W9x is included for
> compatibility) Windows applications shares the LDT so you can easilly use a
> descriptor that belongs to other application ... ouch!
A malevolent programmer can do all kinds of atrocities. I'm sure it's
not very hard to crash Linux as well, if you want it hard enough. I
hoped we were talking about normal applications, not tricks designed
to crash the OS...
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