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> -- Linux coders are not comparable to the monkeys working in Redmond.
> Their code does not fail.

It fails. The difference is that developers admit it. And fix it.
"Every software has bugs" (Linus).

> -- In NT 4, not only are the video drivers in kernel space, but so is
> the windowing system.

And soon, in NT5, IIS too (!). NT4 have a new scheduler
algorithm, which have a pseudo real-time options, which
could cause processes to lock up the machine (actually,
changing a process to real-time will cause NT to lock up
until the process ends... ugh!)

Bye



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