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- From: jardined@qucis.queensu.ca (Donald Jardine)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Mix of 3-chip and 9-chip simms with OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.023302.8854@qucis.queensu.ca>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 02:33:02 GMT
- References: <BzDMF3.4F9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <8163@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec18.210353.17273@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston
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- It's been observed for about 30 years (in my personal experience) that the
- operating system is the best hardware diagnostic for any machine. This was
- well known in early IBM 360 days with OS/360. It's interesting to see that
- it hasn't changed much :-). Complex software stresses any hardware, just as
- complex interacting processes stress operating system software. That's why
- many people use the operating system as a test of the compatibility of
- hardware. If you want to find bugs, induce stress.
-