Re:Computers don't crash (Score 1)

What, like turning off the power during a critical operation?

I think there is a lot of value in designing systems, that recover gracefully, even after having been switched off (this could also happen due to a power failure). Journalling file systems is just one example of of OS technology meant to support this.

Many applications have over the years been designed to frequently save their state, and thus minimize the impact of crashes, but it would be nice to see a lot more. The coding effort involved is not all that big either, and with the speed of modern hardware the overhead should not impact usabilty all that much. There really is no excuse!