stability

[Skybird03]

I launched a long session this afternoon. I tend to play missions carefully, sneaky, move by move, like chess, planning for all eventualities. I may take long time, but my loss ratios are sensationally low. :D

But then, after roughly two hours, I realised that I would not be able to finish the match, for I was interested in an ebay auction, and the time was near. So: I paused, and switched to desktop, then went online, and visited ebay. I forgot that the match was running, so I updated all my scanners, and ran them one by one while doing the kitchen work. Before that, I downloaded a 20 minutes IL-2 movie and watched it. Then I came back and started a short session with Words, writing two letters, then printing a birthday card via Paint Shop Pro. It was a big picture, surely stressing the memory and using the swap file. Somewhere in between all this, I visited this forum twice. I finished everything else, and two and a half hours later I started to defragmentize my drives (on weekend it is computer cleanup over here, I have several partitions). not until now I remembered that I had a match running in the background, so I spared the partition where SBP was installed, and clicked myself back into the match.

The sim went on as if no interruption ever had happened.

I'm impressed!

[Ssnake]

Well, much of the praise is deserved by the Microsoft programmers (ahem, yes: They do a good job on occasion). I don't want to say that we're "just" using function calls of the OS, but stability in multitasking environments does depend to a large degree on the operating system.