RE: App crashing the OS

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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        From:   Gerald Magnuson [SMTP:magnuson@bcl.net]
        Sent:   Tuesday, February 17, 1998 9:32 AM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Re: App crashing the OS

        Bob Crothers wrote:


        > However, when an application crash's the operating system, is
it
        > the OS's fault or the applications?  True, the OS shouldn't
        > crash, but it is still the application that should get the
        > majority of the blame.
        > 

          ... and I suppose we should give the majority of the Blame to
the
        gasoline for the explosion, instead of the poor design of the
Pick-up
        Truck.

<< Rant mode: ON >>
Knowing the US legal system, the lawyers would no doubt try to lay the
blame with one or the other, instead of where it belongs.
It would have to be the fault of the truck manufacturer for the design
of the truck, or the gasoline manufacturers for the volatility of the
fuel they make, or the road designers for the layout of the highway.
The curse of society these days, no one is responsible for their own
actions.
Try to pin the blame everywhere except where it really belongs, and
that's with the idiot who was driving the truck, or the idiot who was
driving the vehicle that hit it.
<< Rant mode: OFF >>

Back to the issue at hand, the O/S should isolate other applications and
users from the effects of a crap application.  Just because one s**t
program is crashes it shouldn't bring down the whole system.
Maybe the problem with PC's is there are just so many crap applications
?
Well, that may be true, but I gotta believe that the Operating System on
the PC's is to blame when the machine crashes. 

SO - all that said, I guess I agree !   :-) 



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