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echo: os2prog
to: Stacy Smith
from: Rob Basler
date: 1994-09-16 10:40:00
subject: OS/2 crash-proof?

SS>Since I use my OS/2 machine for programming DOS (and hopefully soon, OS/2)
SS>apps, my system is a little more vulnerable to crashes due to code in
SS>progress.  For example, I've had some bad code (e.g. stray pointers, bad
SS>addresses, etc.) that locked OS/2 (2.11) tight as a drum.

One thing that makes OS/2 more reliable is to by an EISA or MCA machine
with watchdog timers on the bus.  ISA machines don't have them.  What
they do is let OS/2 recover from programs like:

CLI
JMP $

Rob.
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