Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> Do you seriously think you can add support for VM, protected mode, 
>> networking, and lots of different kinds of hardware without making the 
>> OS more complicated?
> 
> I guess the killer question is "can you do it without making it buggy". 

It's a question of expense. I, personally, have never had my machine 
crash because of a bug in the VM code that Microsoft wrote. At least, as 
far as I know.

I think it's generally other parts of the code that crash.

> I was programming in Pascal - why?

Fair enough. Pascal can be fairly safe if you're not using too many 
dynamic structures.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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