> BTW, my first 'puter was a Vic-20 before I was able to
> upgrade to a C-64. I
> can honestly say that I never EVER had an OS crash on that
> computer. If the
> computer crashed or locked, it was because of sloppy code.
> Man, the way
> things ought to be :)
Of course, it can arguably be said it is the OS's
responsibility to keep an application crash from
bringing down the entire machine.
/me steams open the small boy's envelopes.
[Guess he should have used his secret en/decoder ring
instead of relying on security through obscurity.]
But, to answer the question, yes the boy was smarter than
today's top executives. A quick reading of any Dilbert
comic strips proves this. QED ;-)
~Patrick
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