On Friday 11 May 2007 09:51, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2007-05-11 at 07:47 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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Does anyone know where this extra sensitivity to marginal hardware originates? Why would Windows be more tolerant? Do they do something to be more robust (e.g., catch hardware fault exceptions and attempt retries or some such tactic)?
My guess is that linux tries to use all the capacity the hardware should have, in order to improve speed and throughput. This also means that if the hardware fails to do wht it should do, linux will also fail.
That doesn't really explain it, does it? If there's some subset of a machine's capabilities not used by Windows but used by Linux, why would it exactly correspond to that which tends to fail or misfire in all those cases of systems that run without overt error on Windows but cause crashes or malfunctions under Linux?
Probably windows is more conservative, uses a more genereic approach
- or they used more faulty harware when testing, or use conservative generic specifications.
Possible, but it's still not a well-formed idea. Computers are digital devices. They don't really have any continuous properties, other than, perhaps, some issues around failure probabilities (or inter-arrival times) w.r.t. device temperature. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org