Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG OT: Computer Platform Stability
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:21:22 -0500

Johnny Deadman wrote, in part:

> Nothing very amazing about it really. UNIX is a  protected environment where
> a crash in one thread can't affect anything else eg overwrite some other
> app's memory. If Windows or Mac OS were built like that they'd be as stable.

That's the amazing part: that they aren't.

M.

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Replies: Reply from Barney Quinn <barney@ncep.noaa.gov> (Re: [Leica] LUG OT: Computer Platform Stability)