Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:27:22 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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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...