From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 693462045 Sender: ohk@gong10.clustra.com References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com> <3A0B68EF.A06B276D@ix.netcom.com> <3A0BB50B.96F77015@cadwin.com> <3A0BEAC7.5BC70E0@cadwin.com> <3A0BFA4A.5FA9D365@erols.com> <3A0C03BE.C3216454@cadwin.com> <8ujp12$3vk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0FCBAD.824095C6@cadwin.com> <8uos3l$q6h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8up1ht$upu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8uqhs1$88s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A1123F8.ABFFD641@bton.ac.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@enitel.no X-Trace: news.telia.no 974207236 195.204.160.194 (Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:07:16 CET) Organization: Enitel Internet Public Access NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:07:16 CET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John English writes: > Robert Dewar wrote: > > > > In article <8up1ht$upu$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, > > gdemont@my-deja.com wrote: > > > Robert Dewar: > > > > > Maybe there is not enough bad software that make it crash. > > > > A decent operating system cannot be crashed by "bad software", > > I used to have a little DOS program that would kill OS/2 stone-cold > dead... ;-) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk > Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je > Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** > University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, the problem is there are very few decent operating systems around :-) Thanks to a bug in our program, HP-UX would freeze so totally that not even the power-off button on the cabinet worked. We had to actually unplug the system to get it running again. But then, we were using some undocumented system calls in HP, with parameters which apparently were never checked. -- Kabelsalat ist gesund. Ole-Hj. Kristensen