How to solve Windows crashes

[Deadly Ferret]

A conversation with a friend of mine just came back to me, and with it a burning question: why the hell don't Microsoft make processors so that they can put Windows on them? We'd discussed how reliable the Acorn machines were, and it was because the OS was on the CPU...

If there's anybody for whom that doesn't make sense, the benefit of putting the OS on a chip is that the system files can't be tampered with by dodgy users, botched installations, cheeky software etc.

 

[garyh]

A coder on MSDN was saying that around 90% of crashes are actually caused by bad kernel drivers from third parties (such as creative) causing buffer loops (a piece of code will get stuck within the buffer and cause the o/s to hang)

This is semi-solved within Vista by a lot of the unnessasary drivers being pushed into User mode instead...

I doubt having the CPU 'on die' so to speak would solve the current situation to be honest.

 

[bledd]

i reckon the future of os's is having it stored on a solid state ram disk, but one that does allow customising (ie, you can do what you want to it and have a cd to reflash it to default if you need to)

you'd get zero piracy! and more speed