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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.183923.8006@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:39:23 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.115713.1131@dlpinc00.rn.com> <Bt4t2s.M1C@gator.rn.com> <1992Aug22.155636.16266@unixland.natick.ma.us> <1992Aug24.220140.4277@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1992Aug24.220140.4277@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, rhf@decoy.uucp (25421-flood) writes:
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- | 3. The above considered, I think a well-built Intel box (i.e., with
- | well-chosen subsystems) will run UNIX as reliably as SunOS will run it.
- | Certainly a well-seasoned vintage like Interactive 5.3, less so the newer
- | and less-robust V.4 versions. But I still prefer V.4 for numerous reasons.
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- In my experience V.4 implementations, not just Dell, are more reliable
- than any V.3, at least in terms of staying up. There are glitches in one
- or another, but I just don't spend time rebooting after panics, even
- when I had Dell, Intel, and (vendor still has me under non-d) alpha and
- beta versions running. To me the unforgivable sin is the panic (or with
- some ISC versions the double panic).
-
- I know what you're saying, and since I have a Xenix system which
- hasn't paniced in almost four years (public access unix, yet) I know
- there's a lot to be said for tried and true, but in general I think the
- V.4 kernel is just internally more robust.
-
- This discussion might want to move to wizards if it keeps going, I'm
- just making a gentle disagreement about V.4, not trying to start a war.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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