Does anyone know why computers used to crash all the time and now they don't?
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Replying to @Alrenous
Do you mean why there used to be more kernel events? Partly because of improvements in address assignment, hardware behavior (staying within lanes), and because of improvement in kernels. Drivers used to have direct access to memory -- that was always dicey.
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Replying to @MostlyDev @Alrenous
There have also been significant improvements in error correction at the hardware level. In short: for reasons.
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Replying to @MostlyDev
I'm asking for the reasons, Which you seem to have provided, so, uh, thanks.
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Replying to @Alrenous @MostlyDev
It would be cool if you could give a few examples of 'improvements in kernels'
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Replying to @Alrenous
that has a lot to do with security. Linux never crashed the way Windows did. Windows provided drivers (random software devs) with access to shared memory. Nowadays you can only ask the os for things, and whether you get them is tightly managed.
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Replying to @MostlyDev @Alrenous
The most common cause of software panics were race conditions. Hardware causes were more common: bus noise and errors, cpu and memory instability, communication out of turn, etc.
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