Going back to the D5 instability issue. I initially found D5 extremely
stable until I installed C++ Builder 3 standard on the same PC. I then
started getting AVs every where with D5. To remedy this problem I had to
uninstall both D5 and C++ 3 Standard (The one that came with D5) and then
reinstall D5. Once I had done all that D5 was as stable as before, ie a
rock.
IMHO D5 rocks especially as the IDE is noticeably faster than D4!
I use Win98 at home and have found it to be just as stable as my NT4 install
at work. Although I do wish I could have the NT Task Manager for Win98 so I
can minimise it to the system tray.
Just my two cents worth.
Nahum
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Nic Wise
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:51 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 - Stability or lack of it.
>
>
> > I have to agree here that NT has proved a very stable development
> > platform for me (especially compared to Win9x) but this may be
> symptomatic
> > of the technologies within delphi that are being exploited.
>
> BUT, why should we accept having to reboot every 2-3 days?? Your average
> unix box - on Intel, even, which is fairly crap as hardware goes - stays
> up for weeks or months with >1 developer hacking away at it....
>
> >
> > Could I get a brief description of the types of technologies
> being used in
> > those apps that caused so many problems with NT. EG MIDAS,
> > Interbase, ORACLE, MSSQL, ACCESS, CORBA, OLE, TCPIP, IIS/ISAPI/NSAPI,
> > DCOM, Dynamic package loading, Serial/Parallel Commsm, etc...
>
> NT/IIS4/ASP/MSSQL6.5/ADO/ADO-MD/JRun(Java)/
>
> I dont get too many problems running Delphi, but there again, I dont run
> it that much - I get most of my problems with the underlying OS -
> explorer crashing, apps not shutting down or working until other apps
> shutdown (outlook being a prime example), IE not unloading until you
> reboot etc
>
> > I would be interested and so might Borland if they looking for
> areas to target
> > for improvement... A test should be possible on D5 to see if
> those troublesome
> > areas have been improved upon...
>
> I dont think it's Borland's problem - not what I'm talking about,
> anyway. MS has a history of shipping beta's and calling them release
> software, and people are accepting this as the norm, which is arse, 'cos
> stable systems CAN be written - look at OS/AS400, Solaris (which is not
> without its problems), IRIX, BeOS etc.
>
> Hell, I hacked away at an SGI O2 for most of a year without it being
> rebooted. Except when I pulled out the powerplug when I was trying to
> move it to get the s-video plug in. Had to kill off processes now and
> again, tho, but the OS stayed up. I even managed to kill the ATM link
> from tamaki to auckland uni by flooding it with UDP packets. The SGI
> still ticked along just fine tho....
>
> I suppose what I'm say is, there are much better options out there, but
> they are not the norm on the desktop, and people in general have been
> tuned to accept a VERY low level of stability and consider it normal.
>
> N
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