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IIRC 3.11 had no process isolation and the IP stack was an afterthought. So every application bug could crash or hang the whole system. And networking problems
by usr1106 3y ago
IIRC 3.11 had no process isolation and the IP stack was an afterthought. So every application bug could crash or hang the whole system. And networking problems could freeze everything.
It's rather unlikely that something complicated like an X-server was bug free.
So the system you describe as rock solid, can only be rock solid as long as no real world application is running on it.
IIRC NT 3.51 was the real first kernel where a buggy application could not affect the whole machine. But at least in early days BSOD was pretty common, maybe depending a bit on drivers you needed.
(Did not do any archeology now, just from increasingly vague memories.)