>>NT is less tolerant of memory mismanagement in general, but is far less likely to have an app crash and take the whole OS with it. The actual trap is done by the CPU's memory mangement subsystem; Windows grabs the ISR for the hardware error, determines the cause and shuts down the app that overstepped it bounds if necessary, messily in most cases, having a tendency to leave DLLs in an inconsistent state.
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>Incidentally, I recently upgraded to Win98 version 2, and was surprised to see that it seems to trap exactly like my NT machine at work does - virtually an identical message...interesting, I guess MS decided NT has the right idea. Not sure if it works quite as well, but so far it seems to.

The underlying core for Win98 is still basically another flavor of Win95, which at its core is DOS. The NT kernel does much more to protect itself thatn Win98. And MS is still not merging Win9x with the Win2K core - we still have one more Win9x product due to ship - Millenium. And then if MS is serious, the NEXT home and business platform kernals will merge...


Did I hear a moose saying "Hey Rockie, watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat!" out in Redmond?