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Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada
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"WinGuru" <anonymous> wrote in message news:3ec67910$1@nntp0.pdx.net...

It wasn't me you replied to but let me chip-in with an example:

> In how much time under what conditions with what type or quality of
hardware
> and with what type of drivers?  Have you made any particular analysis of
why
> there was the crash or did you just blame MS without any real clue as to
> what went wrong?  Seriously, do you have the post-mortem analysis?   Are
you
> absolutely positive that you can ascribe the error to Windows and MS and
not
> some flaky hardware or device driver?

I happen to run a multi-boot setup on a reasonably new, reasonably
modern machine (all the latest patches and drivers installed).
It has a regular plain-vanilla dial-up modem. Now, one of the systems
installed (W98) has absolutely no trouble using it. Works fine. Another
(W2K) has all sorts of problems even connecting. When it does, it
connects at a lower speed and tends to drop the connection depending
(apparently) on the current weather in Antarctica.

Now - we have exactly the same hardware, exactly the same locality,
phone line etc etc. One system works just fine, thank you. The other
is a total flop handling a simple connection. Who would *you* blame?