The only OS I've seen do this with a reasonable amount of success is Linux. Win2000 and WinXP relaxed the WinNT protection (which wasn't very solid in the first place) in order to achieve better performance. Generally with one of the WinNT varients only drivers (sound, video, printer) will actually bring down the OS (of course it's applications that usually trigger the unanticipated usage of these drivers which causes catastrophic failures). Very often in a WinNT varient you'll see just the application blow up and not the entire operating system. I have my suspicions that IE is hooked so deeply into the operating system that anything using the browser facilities is quite capable of trashing Windows.
- John Wright Starfire Research "Noah J. Ternullo" wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2002, John Nelson wrote: > > > The applet wedged the browser so badly that it was necessary to hard > > reset the machine. The browser could not be killed because the > > operating system had been devestated. > > > > -- John > > 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. > > Noah > > =========================================================================== > 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". =========================================================================== 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".
