Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!olive!navmat.navy.gov.au!posgate.acis.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!news.serv.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!c4.hrz.uni-giessen.de!usenet From: chris.traxler@theo.physik.uni-giessen.de (Chris Traxler) Newsgroups: misc.misc,misc.forsale.computers.discussion,comp.os.os2.marketplace,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.mach,comp.os.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.misc,comp.os.magic-cap,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: *** PLEASE TAKE THIS OS SURVEY *** Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 14:21:38 GMT Organization: University of Giessen, Germany Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4fflmt$jh3@c4.hrz.uni-giessen.de> References: <Pine.D-G.3.91.960124225044.20914C-100000-100000@erc.cat.syr.edu> <4eu2n6$bvu@rubens.telebyte.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: theorie126.physik.uni-giessen.de X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au misc.misc:29194 misc.forsale.computers.discussion:3010 comp.os.os2.marketplace:1984 comp.os.msdos.misc:48091 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:100972 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:90424 comp.os.mach:5032 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:110020 comp.os.misc:4685 comp.os.magic-cap:1460 comp.os.lynx:1683 comp.os.linux.misc:85558 comp.os.386bsd.development:3346 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:3086 ritchi@telebyte.nl (David Ritchi) wrote: >Jim Whitehead <jwhitehe@erc.cat.syr.edu> wrote: >>Ok... here is the deal.... i have to do a project for my science fair... >>and I decided to investiate the easiest to use na dmost reliable >>Operating System/Environment... Please take the following 3 questions... >>1.) What Operating System/Environment do you most frequently use? >Windows 95. >>2.) What Operating System/Environment do you feel is the most User Friendly? >Windows 95 (I do like Linux better though, it'sjust not as user >friendly) >>3.) Have you ever had a crash on your computer, that was blamed, or the >>fault of the OS/OE, if so.. which system/environment was the cause? >I'm afraid I'm the one to blame for crashes. NO! That kind of answer has been given frequently in this thread. I would like to clarify one point: * If a TASK or PROCESS crashes, it is your fault as the programmer. * But if the whole SYSTEM crashes due to a faulty written program started under non-supervisor (root) permission, it is ALWAYS a bug in the operating system, as a serious OS supports full memory protection and there should (in an idealized environment) be no way whatsoever to make the system hang unless you are root and changing configurations. The normal user cannot make a reasonable OS crash. That rules out Win3.1, Win95, and Mac OS (I don't know about NT or OS/2). Any comments are welcome, flames are not, and please send a copy of your follow-up to me by email. Kind regards, Chris ----- Chris Traxler, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, D-35392 Giessen