Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 11 May 2007 07:29, Petr Klíma wrote:
Well, it's quite surprising, but Linux is by order of magnitude more
sensitive to hardware stability. Memory errors, overclocking and such
may cause Linux to produce weird errors while Windows run
smoothly. ...
I know this is the conventional wisdom, and I don't really dispute it,
but I am at a loss to explain why it would be so.
Does anyone know where this extra sensitivity to marginal hardware
originates? Why would Windows be more tolerant? Do they do something to
be more robust (e.g., catch hardware fault exceptions and attempt
retries or some such tactic)?
I think it's more of an observation effect.
Windows is so buggy, that when hardware errors do occur,
it's just background noise in the all-too-typical crashing
and failing...
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