Re: 406 Not Acceptable

Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Vista sucks in lots of ways, but it's not hard to write applications
that run on it reliably. Getting stuff not to crash or hang Windows
3 [1] was a Sisyphusian task..

1. I don't mean that the program would hang or crash -- the entire
computer would freeze, often in irreproducible ways, and you'd have
to guess what questionable thing your program might have done to
cause it. Quite often the answer was "Write outside an array
boundary and scribble on some Windows data structure that got
tripped over much later".

If it took that much to crash a Windows 3 system, and takes even
more than that to crash a Vista system, then Microsoft really has
been improving. I can remember when their code crashed for no
reason at all.

My first exposure to Microsoft was with their Fortran compiler for
the 8080 in 1980. I couldn't figure out why my program kept crashing.
I *must* have made some mistake in coding, but what? Finally, in
desperation, I looked at the object code Microsoft's compiler was
generating. *It was doing it wrong*, inserting the occasional 00
byte in the middle of instructions and operands.

I concluded that Microsoft was a crappy company with worthless
products and no future. Not a perfect prediction, but hey, two
out of three isn't bad.
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