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- From: rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <rvdp.714568017@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 11:06:57 GMT
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- larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
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- -bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
-
- ->A machine running SunOS will be much less likely to "hang" than the
- ->equivalent intel machine. At least that has been my experience, but
-
- -Bull. My Dell box runs and runs. I remember running ISC (granted
- -2.20 with their old 1.2 TCP release) and it hung.
-
- -Try running Dell. It runs and runs (right karl@ddsw1.msc.com). My
- -machine never crashes (unless I go poking in the kernel -- which I haven't
- -done in months). It's not uncommon to have uptime here of 40-60 days -
- -and then the only reason the machine is rebooted is if the power goes
- -out (we don't have a UPS)..
-
- -My machine doesn't hang. Maybe yours does, but mine doesn't.
-
- Dell SVR4 is probably the best Unix you can buy for a PC, but I think
- SunOS is a by far a more complete operating system.
-
- --
- Ronald van der Pol
- rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl
-