Diamond Dave wrote:

On some machines it did, if it worked well on the machines you have it was
very stable but still a PITA to network.

It's not a machine-dependent problem. Windows 9x did not have any memory
protection whatsoever, so any program could accidently overwrite any other
program, including the OS, in memory. Combine this with the lack of
testing endemic in Windows software, and the DLL hell from lack of decent
shared object management, and you get the infamously unstable Windows.

At least shared object management has gotten *slightly* better in Windows
over time, and WinNT/00/XP has (incompetent) memory protection, so it's not
as bad as it used to be. However, it still can't hold a flame to the
various unix variants (MacOS X, Linux, etc) for reliability and ease of
maintainability over time...

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