On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Maarten van Strien (cs^tbl) wrote:
> Even when M$ deserves several
> punishments (axes, knifes, you name it.. I'll give them :) at least they
> made it good job by forcing a standard..
When only one manufacturer makes their products compatible, you cannot call
it a standard. The unique thing about MSX is that products from many
different manufacturers were compatible. That is what a real standard is
supposed to do.
> don't get me wrong.. there are several moments each week when I'm getting
> red of anger when I get that "this program has performed an illegal
> operation and will be shut down" text again!
Actually, in that case Windows is doing something well. If a program is
misbehaving, it should be shut down as soon as possible, before it can do
any harm.
The problem is that Windows sometimes doesn't catch misbehaving programs
and they're allowed to take the whole system down. I'm running Linux
myself, and programs under Linux crash as well (especially Netscape), but
they never bring down the whole system.
But I'm drifting in an off-topic direction. Let's not re-open the eternal
pro/con Microsoft discussion.
Bye,
Maarten
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