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From: tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant)
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Subject: Re: Bugs ( was Re: S*ga Dreamc*st)
Date: 6 Aug 1998 01:43:57 GMT
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On 5 Aug 1998 10:08:19 GMT, George Bain wrote:
>
>
>Hi Toby,
>
>More like the problem being people installing pirate beta copies of Win95.
>Then again most of the problems occur when you install another piece of
>software.  When the software crashes people automatically blame Win95...

Blame software crashes on software; blame operating system crashes on the
operating system. No operating system should (except in vary rare cases)
allow a program to crash, hang, subvert, spindle, fold or mutilate it
in any way that isn't intended. The fact that both 95 and NT bluescreen
regularly for me (and believe me, this is not either a> my fault or b>
because of any piracy on my part) and the fact that I've managed to crash
unix boxes fewer times than i have fingers peaks volumes as far as I'm
concerned.

>was it a Win95 bug or the software's bug....hmmmmm.  Lets face it, there
>are tonnes of crap software for Win95 that can cause your system to crash.

Exactly. The big miracle here is that Windows users will put up with it.
Unix users using crap software get coredumps. Windows users get to reboot.

>George

Toby.