sorry but saying that an OS can make up for faulty hardware is plain and simple crap. baring fantastic measures (eg those used for satellites where they expect solar proton events) no OS will make up for the CPU spitting out the wrong answers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter L. Peres" To: Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 4:19 AM Subject: Re: [OT]: Why MS$ Is Loved > As to clocking down, scores of people run dual boot machines and the *nix > variants almost never need clocking down to make them work. It is entirely > possible to write software (esp. io and interrupt related) that pushes the > hardware or latency tolerance so far that it needs clocking down to make > it work. On *nix those code parts are usually extremely well written and > debugged. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body