Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 06:57:08 -0600 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI |
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 06:26:57AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > yodaiken@fsmlabs.com said: > > Foolhardy as it may be, people do _use_ the operating system to run > > important applications and an "application goes down or screws up" can be > > quite serious. > > Yes. But "the kernel screws up and crashes" is more serious, as it takes > _all_ applications with it. And if it is "screws up and scribbles on de > disks" the losses are even much more serious.
Really? More serious than a multithreaded data base failing to synchronize as promised? Get real. You can't do this type of ranking. If the compiler is bad, the entire system is a joke. Users don't care whether the accounting system fails and the telephone stops working because of a compiler error or a kernel crash.
> -- > Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl > Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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