>> Microsoft have just released a patch for all versions of Win 9x (_all_
>> versions of Win 95 _and_ Win 98) which (is claimed to) resolve a
>> problem with systems hanging after 49.7 days continuous
>> operation. Only took them four years to find out that this might be
>> an issue ;-)
> The reason it took so long is that it wasn't until now that ANYONE
> had Win9x run that long without rebooting. They might find the
> same sort of bug in Linux in, oh, about 10 years.
Win9x is not run in, for example, serving an ISP, where Uptime is 6 months or
more, like Linux is. Such a bug would probably be caught, in about 49.7 days.
With a patch in a couple of weeks at the outside. Also, Win95 (in my
experience) locks up so frequently, and requires reboots so often, that you
would be lucky to keep it up 49.7 days, and even then, who is to say which
bug caused the reboot.
Farting in Win95's general direction, :-)
-Lucas Wiman
P.S. If these views offended you, I remind you of two rights: The right to
ignore me completly, and the right to use a technologically inferior operating
system if you so desire
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