What happens within your computer when it locks up or crashes? And why do some operating systems seem inherently more stable than others?
Posted 10.25.2002 at 4:39 pm
Tony Rose
Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
All computers lock up or crash, and no operating system is immune (as a matter of fact, we crashed once as we wrote this answer), but singling out specific reasons oversimplifies the issue, explains Daniel Jackson, a computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The underlying cause, Jackson says, is that hardware and software developers are trying to bring products to market in "Internet time"-that is, hyperfast. The result: Quality and reliability suffer.
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