Lets look back and see if any of you can actually agree with this (If you have been around for 10 or so years in the industry!)
Unreliable SW: Microsoft <anything> excluding Windoze NT4 and NT5 (2000)
Reliable SW: Linux Redhat
Reliable SW: DR-DOS (Far superior to MSDOS)
Reliable SW: MS-DOS 5 (Had to put my fav M$ OS in)
Reliable SW: FreeBSD
Reliable SW:
64K MEMORY FREE
OK
10 PRINT "RELIABLE!"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
LOL!!
Unreliable HW: Any NIC with Realtek chipset
Unreliable HW #2: Any K5 or K6 AMD products (The 386 imitators were actually quite good)
Unreliable HW #3: WD HD's (all after 1Gb)
Unreliable HW #4: CPU Fans
Unreliable HW #5: Inkjet printers with more than 500 pages on the total count
Unreliable HW #6: Those stupid terminators on a coax P2P network
Unreliable HW #7: Did I mention Realtek NW cards?
Unreliable HW #8: Oak Technology, Tseng Labs ISA/VLB VGA cards
Unreliable HW #9: Seagate HD's up to 420Mb
Reliable HW: My computer CASE! It has NEVER let me down!
Reliable HW #2: The power cord, never failed!
Reliable HW #3: That 12" IBM VGA monitor, 13yo and still going!
Reliable HW #4: Connor CP3000 40Mb HD in the 386 hooked up to the above monitor running M$DOS 5, still going strong!
Reliable HW #5: My Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX81 and Tandy TRS80: All still working!
Reliable HW #6: My Computer desk, never broken down!
Reliable HW #7: Trident TVGA8900 ISA 1Mb SVGA card or Trident TGUI9440 VLB, never had ANY troubles with them
Geez how I can look back and see how good computing USED to be... I could begin describing the great and not so great Unix based HW and SW from yesteryear but I dont think anybody would know what I'm talking about Hopefully some ppl around heere will have been around for many years to agree with me on some of the above