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- From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: GP faults and other trivia. . .
- Message-ID: <Sep.9.18.37.01.1992.8484@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 22:37:02 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.104048.1@ualr.edu> <1992Sep9.094232.17759@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
-
- >Note that memory problems are more likely to show up under linux-0.97
- >and newer: not because they are more fragile, but simply because they
- >use memory much more dynamically, and are more likely to take full
- >advantage of the memory you have got.
-
- I haven't had any trouble with Linux. But the dealer I got my
- computer from knew I intended to use it with Unix. He claims that
- memory that works fine with DOS will not always work with Unix. They
- insist on SIMM's that use 9 chips rather than the newer 3-chip SIMM's
- for any system they know is going to be used with Unix. (This is not
- necessarily the only specification of interest, of course.) I have
- seen problems at Rutgers under Mach and SVr4 that we were unable to
- duplicate with memory diagnostics or DOS.
-