Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:32:10 +0500 (MVT)
From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT crosswinds DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> Actually Chris this is quite wrong, AFAIK due to windoze's intrinsically
> faulty design one badly behaved app can indeed bring the whole system
> crashing to the ground.

And it usually crashes 10 minutes after the application crashes. Strange...

> is. fr ex there was this user who was complainig that RHIDE with windoze
> gave him a back screen and then the system locked up. This is a very good
> example of the whole system crashing down (this maybe not due to RHIDE's
> fault, most likely it is windoze..)

Even if the app. is faulty, it is upto Windows to settle things right. But
unfortunately it doesn't. Some resources aren't freed and this forces you
to reboot the system.