Thanks to Techboggle, I was mesmerized then tantalized by the article on the Windows Vista kernel. After adjusting the text size so I could actually see something that looked neat AND legible on the page, I got stuck into the techno babble written on I/O and Superfetch. It may as well have been written upside down and out of focus for all that I understood.

It was all gobbledygook, but on balance it was tantalizing. After reading that arcane and implausible blurb from a Microsoft guru with their head up their corporate kernel, I can't wait to use Mac Leopard's slim line, streamlined and much more obvious approach to memory-handling. Somehow a dose of Reality Distortion Field is far more appealing.

Bombproof kernel, just don't mention the cache.

Apple will tell you that OS X doesn't really crash. It's true, and instead of quoting memory protection and re-routed in out oojymaflips at xyz mhz per millisecond:

Imagine a hand with 4 fingers and a thumb. The palm is the Operating System, the fingers are the applications. If you break a finger, no way can it break the palm of your hand, and as fingers work independently of each other, one defective finger can't break other fingers either. So if an app crashes, only it is affected and the OS and all other processes continue uninterrupted. Simple see.

Microsoft, wisely stick a thumb up their ass praying Vista doesnt crash during the Powerpoint demonstration, reminding Apple fanbois of the cache issues with OS X. Once the caches build up, the machine slows and the kernel may as well crash. Nobody is perfect.