POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : A comparison : Re: A comparison Server Time
10 Oct 2024 23:18:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A comparison  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 21 Mar 2008 05:44:52
Message: <47e391a4$1@news.povray.org>
Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>
>> They re-wrote the network stack, and on initial betas, apparently they 
>> had re-introduced bugs that had been fixed in Win95. (like a ping 
>> packet forged to look like it came *from* 127.0.0.1 caused a 
>> kernel-mode infinite loop, locking up the system badly)
> 
> History repeats itself :).

Or "Micro$oft still hasn't learned how to write a network stack properly 
even after 10 years", whichever you prefer...

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