Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

["Rupert Pigott" <roo@dark-try-removing-this-boong.demon.co.uk>]

<jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote in message news:b2avch$lee$2@bob.news.rcn.net...
> In article <3E482172.8A402F67@yahoo.com>,
>    CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Rupert Pigott wrote:
> >> "Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
> >> > "Glen" <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
> >> >
> >> > > I used to used to admin an AIX server... it did not crash once.
> >> > > Z-e-r-o times.  And this thing was doing some real work too.
> >> >
> >> > This will probably be a shock to, well, nobody.  I use a Sun
> >> > workstation at work.  Solaris something or other.  The only time
> >> > I've ever crashed the thing was running (here's the shocker)
> >> > Internet Explorer for Unix.
> >>
> >> IE crashed your UNIX box ? Whoa...
> >
> >Proving that anything from Microsoft has unlimited capabilities.
> >I didn't know such a thing existed, but if it does it is probably
> >designed to cause as much trouble as possible.
>
> Anything can crash any OS if it has any write access to
> exec mode.

In this case it's a write access in exec mode via a message
passing protocol... To be totally honest with you I don't
see *why* that should happen, aside from over-aggressive
optimisation... That's another story, and X certainly has
been subject to a huge amount of optimisation work.

Been there and seen it first hand...

Cheers,
Rupert