Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

[Charles Oppermann]

>>
Yes, look at the facts. The ship had been towed in several times due to 
nt failures.  I have never had my system reboot or crash because of a 
usermode divide by zero- I guess thats another 'feature' of nt.

Microsoft has done an admirable job of covering/obscuring the problem. 
Following link is an article with more detail talking with guys on the 
ship who have to service it.  I  have snipped out a few details.

http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.htm
<<

I'd read that article before posting.  I can find no reference in that
article or elsewhere that says the entire OS crashed.  Unless the divide by
zero exception occurred in the kernel, the OS would not crash.

I say again, this problem was the result of bad third-party software, not
the platform it was running on.

---Chuck