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by Fushigi on Fri Jun 24, 2005 at 11:33:37 AM PDT

Maybe every PC-class OS, but not "every OS". I can count using the fingers on my feet how many times I've heard of an AS/400 (now iSeries i5) crash due to a driver issue in the last 10 years. If a failure in a device or driver occurs, the offending device is disabled. You can troubleshoot or re-enable as you see fit, but the system itself will not crash.

BTW, the iSeries is also architecturally immune to buffer overflow errors. It won't execute data and an overflow can at most crash an app; it won't bring down the system.

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