Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:3013 comp.unix.questions:12378 comp.unix.wizards:15165 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!killer!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: C bug causes double panic Summary: some of that too. Message-ID: <13866@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 23 Mar 89 00:51:13 GMT References: <244@tree.UUCP> <9884@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2044@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Followup-To: junk Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX Lines: 31 In article <2044@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) writes: >And you will probably get a flood of responses correctly pointing out >that what you say is irrelevent. The original message mentioned that >he "crashed the entire system" by running this program (calling it >a "double fault" rather than "double panic"; which may have misled you). >It doesn't matter that the C program has a bug, it still shouldn't >crash the operating system. Some of us wizards would have shrugged the entire episode off with a ``get a real CPU'' remark. The 80286 does have problems. I doubt that a fully functional and robust operating system for an 80286 can ever be had. The chip is brain dead and a waste of good silicon. Various modes of failure cause the program to be completely aborted, and if that program happens to be your operating system, tough luck. >A true wizard carefully reads the question so that he might answer the >question actually asked, rather than just say the first thing that comes >to mind. Some of that too. Others of us are disgusted with bogus hardware. The 80286 is such an example of a total loser implemented on silicon. Intel created the 286 to keep programmers humble, not to be used for anything productive. -- John F. Haugh II +-Quote of the Week:------------------- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | "Do not drink and bake" InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | -- Arnold Swartzenegger UucpNet : !killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------