Noah J. Ternullo wrote: > The operating system had been devestated? How could an app devestate the > opperating system. I thought all modern opperating systems encapsulated > applications to prevent this.
Nice theory, but: 1) Windows 95/98/ME are not 'modern operating system' 2) Even on windows NT/2000 it is enough to dump special text file to screen to kill entire system as normal user 3) Even on more 'reliable' systems, you have to configure them quite specially to avoid bad behavior in critical situations. Memory - if application has unlimited memory quota, it can reduce system to crawl or even crash it. Fortunately java has it embedded in jvm, but browser does not (and if there is some bug in jvm or browser it can happen). Same goes for threads spinning cpu - with enough processes you can have problems with recovering computer in timely manner. In fact, there are tricks that could burn your processor from inside program :) (I don't know if it is still a case, but it was in <486 days). In short - modern OSes are protected from some, or even most crashes (a lot of improvement till old MS-DOS/win3.1 times). But unless you want to buy mainframe with 'real' OS, you can forget about 100% robustness. Artur =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
