[dholm]

This was most certainly not the case when using CD burners in windows 9x. I remember my friend being afraid of even moving the mouse while burning a CD.

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

Yes, but that was actual contention for resources resulting in the CD-R drive's buffer not being filled in time to keep the write operation going.

That's quite different from the operating system choosing to shoot the CD writing software in the head because you looked away from it for a moment.