PC Bugs

ECP & EPP Printing Crash

1/23/97

Microsoft has advertised Windows NT as a stable system for corporate users. In fact, they like to make you think it can't be crashed. Applications may cause a protection fault and be terminated, but the system will keep running and other applications will be unaffected, they tell us.

Problems with NetBIOS Drivers

Updated 6/6/97

I reran this test on my office system to verify the problem. I was able to unplug the Ethernet connectors and the programs would not hang! It appears that different hardware can change the results.

1/23/97

I finally got the networked client-server system

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