On 6/24/2010 9:31 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> You *can* do stuff with it, but it's very unreliable.
>>
>> Sounds like perfect Windows emulation to me!
>
> Heheh. What, you mean like this?
>
> http://www.slimeland.com/winsim/
>
> I would say, Win 3.x was quite reliable (then again, it doesn't *do*

Windows 3.x was stable? LMAO ... back then I only used windows when I 
absolutely had to. Very crash prone.

> anything), Win 9x was fairly unstable, Win NT was much better, Win XP

9x was better than 3.x, NT was definitely much more stable.

> was initially hopeless, and now Win XP has got to the point where it
> usually works just fine. Certinaly it doesn't crash just because you

Yep. I haven't had much problem with Windows 7 actually. Occasionally 
there's some 64 bit awkwardness (64bit apps being able to allocate way 
more memory that physically available causes trouble), but well, I chose 
to install 64 bit.

> open Notepad; ReactOS does. Like, in ReactOS, you can just open an
> Explorer window, click on a few things, and then you notice that the
> mouse has stopped moving and the system is using 100% CPU, and the
> keyboard isn't responding, and...
>
> I haven't seen the Blue Screen of Death from ReactOS yet. Maybe they
> haven't implemented that part?

Nah, it just goes into in infinite loop before it ever gets there 
(apparently, based on your description)

-- 
~Mike

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