RE: Partitions Compression

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Foz wrote:

> Let me see... I was doing some work on Windows NT 4 (sp6a) last
> night (usage time approx 4 hrs from switch on), and the windows
> error (I have still got to see it occur on Linux) that seems dedicated
> to my machine occured. First a Dr Watson, and then and full
> system reboot. Without warning me. I don't get blue screen of
> deaths, I get the full reboot. So this is what a WinTel user has to
> put up with eh? I'd rather not.

A reboot like that generally has a good reason! It might be worth your
while finding out what's wrong. NT is stable enough to realise when it's
about to crash as a general rule ;)

> The sooner that Delphi is released for Linux the better...

Depends what you mean by Delphi. It's unlikely that Kylix is going to be
similar enough to Delphi to port programs (IMO, of course ;). Of course,
there's also KDEStudio which looks rather like C++ Builder..

Cheers,

Alex.

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