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- From: chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 13:30:42 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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- References: <1992Dec29.052115.27441@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Dec30.172609.17583@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
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- In <1992Dec30.172609.17583@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:
-
- >shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
-
- >Why doesn't OS/2 (and DOS for that matter) use default configuration
- >settings when the config.sys file is missing or is corrupted? It is
- >pretty crude and unfriendly to have the system freeze as is currently the case.
- >Hell, one pretty well has to reinstall DOS when a primary DOS partition screws
- >up due to a buggy config file, which is unforgivable.
-
- IBM computers typically have had very LOW fault tolerance. (IBM computers
- means minis and mainframes too).
-
- On some of their computers, if you unplugged a device while the system was
- running (ie, a keyboard), you would have to reboot the machine (on
- most occasions). There was even one that would shut itself down if the
- console was considered "damaged" -- ie, you unplugged the CRT from the wall,
- then entire system would shut down, and you'd have lots of unhappy users.
-
- So, I theorize, that this property of OS/2 is descendant from the mainframe
- (or at least large-computer scale) school of thought at IBM.
-
-
- >--
- >Brian Ross "Welcome to Canada." -- Twin Peaks Movie.
- >bross@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca
-