Re: Famed OS/2 Stability (Was: keyboard lockup)

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From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 13:19:01 EST

On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 22:22:30 -0500, Mark Bell wrote:

>At 06:08 PM 1/4/99 -0800, Paul Khoury wrote:
>>
>>> <Grin!> Pardon my gloating, but this is the famed, ultra-stable, OS/2
>>>Operating System that can't handle a simple keyboard trap?
>>Actually, Win95/98 is worse. Go to start, run, type debug, press enter.
>>Then type f ffff:0000 ffff 33
>>and see what happens.
>>Then tell me your opinion. =)
>
>Hey, the point is ALL OSes can and will crash from time to time. It is just
>at what interval. ;) Let's not get into a Holy OS War here!

Yeah, I was hoping I wouldn't have to start one. <g>

But I'm just curious, did anybody try my debug trick? With all applications shut
down and saved to be on the safe side? 

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