AUGH...

[cjsmith]

...another reboot.

As a friend of mine once said, "When I started this job, I had an uninformed hatred of Windows. That has changed. I now have a much more informed hatred of Windows." Yah. Uh-huh. Me too.

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[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Oooog. Right now the most stable flavor of Win on the whole is W2K, but of course many of us who do embedded stuff don't have much choice in the matter. IME, most WinNT and Win2K crashes are driver-specific, you might poke around for updates here and there, sadly that's much easier to do with W2K. Wish I could offer something more optimistic.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

The most frustrating thing about all this is that there is absolutely no reason my work must be done on any particular kind of system at all. The OS I am writing is so far unrelated to the machine on which I run my editor that it might as well be a different animal kingdom altogether. Unfortunately, our group made a decision years ago to switch from being a Linux-based shop to being a Windows-based shop. Because of that, our compiler (technically cross-compiler) runs only on Windows. It could be ported; it could have been developed wholly for Unix; it just didn't happen that way. No one has bothered to change anything (yet) because the developers around here are insufficiently noisy about our hatred for Windows. To be perfectly honest, I know that this will be a factor in the inevitable mass exodus that will occur as soon as decent jobs start becoming available. It won't be the only factor, but it will have a significant impact.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

You could try W2K. Small help, I realize. *hugs*