Q- Can any OS ever be perfect?

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A- No.
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Yes, it most certainly can. However, I don't believe that a perfect OS will
ever be created....since there will be no need to upgrade and the company
will go bankrupt.

Case in point. Telefunken. We have a 22 year old TV which is still working
as well as the day we bought it. It has never broken down or needed a
single repair! They are no longer in business.....
 
myPC said:
Yes, it most certainly can. However, I don't believe that a perfect
OS will ever be created....since there will be no need to upgrade and
the company will go bankrupt.

Case in point. Telefunken. We have a 22 year old TV which is still
working as well as the day we bought it. It has never broken down or
needed a single repair! They are no longer in business.....
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Perfect hardware is one thing (although it can be argued that your TV may be
good, but it is not at all perfect. It just hasn't broken down *yet*).
Perfect software is another.

Developing any piece of software as big as an operating system is an
enormous undertaking. Windows XP has millions of lines of code in it,
developed by many different programmers. Any attempt to make such a beast
"perfect" would fail by the very nature of the process. With something this
large and this complex, the more you test, the more bugs you find. If you
wait to fix all the bugs, new ones will be found faster than you can fix
them, and no product will ever get released. Not to mention that you can
prove the presence of bugs if you find them, but you can never prove their
absence. Except for a trivial program of the "Hello World" ilk, there is no
such thing as bug-free software, and that's more true of operating systems
than any other kind of software.
 
in a multiverse (like our own) with infinite parallel universes , it
already exists
 
I also had a Telefunken. Lasted less than a year. Poor picture and several
breakdowns. Not impressed!
 
If it matters any, I remember arcade games having a fairly stable code,
there are some bugs in them, like I remember a glitch in pac-man being
documented, that if you could reach the 255th level, that it would crash,
but lets admit it, its hard to get to that level... I see MS's crashware in
many arcade games nowadays, the one that comes to mind is one i saw today,
taped off, out of order, some error message about univershell32.dll, oh
well... wont be playing need for speed now.

Of other matters, probably the most complex machine ever built would be the
shuttle orbiters, and they sport roughly a million lines of code, winxp is
around what? 40 million to run a PC... is the code for the orbiters stable?
yes, even though columbia was having malfunctions left and right, it stayed
on course doing its best, until the wings ripped off. is it Y2K compliant?
no, it isnt even "end of the year" compliant, meaning it doesnt handle
December 31st to January 1st rollover of any year very well...
 
Oh yea... the ideal setup I can think of is configuring the OS, drivers, and
applications, then making it write protected, either by burning it to CD, or
something from the MFM days is to kill the pin (or put a switch in) for
write operations to the drive, or just flip the switch on a memory card.

Boot to the write protected medium, and use another hard drive to store data
and internet junk, added programs can be reburned, or added to the drive,
with a static modifiable index file stored on the hard drive linked from the
write protected medium. This is easily accomplished with DOS & Win3.x but
Win95 on up writes to itself on boot, making this very difficult. I have
seen Win98 boot from CD, but it was a crippled safe mode version. Need to
get more programs out of the registry and get back into their own
folders/directories with their own .ini files.

As far as I can tell, this setup will reduce the effectiveness or eliminate
all together the effects of virus, spyware, and many other malwares, and may
increase security significantly, since the OS and bootup is finally secured
from modification. There are some caveats, such as unprotected BIOS and if
you actually want your modifiable data to remain intact if some virus wants
to delete everything as soon as you run the infected program manually. At
least a reboot will guarantee the OS up with no problems and memory space
clean.

Looks like its linux time for me, microsoft just cant meet the demands im
looking for.
 
but it is not perfect.
nothing can be perfect since it's anyones own opinion, the only thing
perfect is God/Jesus.
 
infinity minus 1 or even minus 10^100 (ten in the power of 100 or googal) is
still infinity

we might be already LIVING in a virtual simulation of a universe that is
running on the perfect OS.
All stars, planets, people and peoples lives and thoughts are just scenarios
played on that simulation.

something like a cosmic sim.
 
Think twice:
This week's The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary lists 9 bugs for Windows and
22 for UNIX/Linux.

JS
 
Howard said:
If it matters any, I remember arcade games having a fairly stable
code,
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Lots of code can be fairly stable. Some can be very stable. None (again,
except the trivial) can be perfect.
 
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