[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
If an app crashes and takes the OS with it, that's also an OS crash. A properly-written OS won't allow an app to corrupt the OS. Your wonky memory may not permit you to recall it, but DOS apps could very easily crash DOS.

Meh, you act as if Windoze applications don't regularly crash the entire computer as well. DOS, however, doesn't come with any perceptible loading time even on the crummiest computer. You turn it on, and it runs! For the reason, such features were not necessary.

I remember games like X-COM and Panzer General doing it, just to name two. If you think differently, then you're deluding yourself (or worse).

X-Com still crashes and takes out the entire computer at times, even in Windoze.

BTW, DOS, even running no apps, could crash too. Hard to do, but it was possible. All depended on the stability of what was loaded using the config.sys file. Then there's infamous DOSes like DOS 5.0 (fixed in 5.1 IIRC), 6.0 (fixed, sort of, in 6.01), and 6.2 (fixed in 6.22).

Not so. DOS, running nothing, sat there and blinked. It could do this for weeks. Months, years. Never crashing. Starting with Windoze 9x, that ended: Windoze can now crash even if left completely unmolested.