Bell Tech 386 SysVr3

Andrew Valencia vandys at hpisoa1.HP.COM
Wed Aug 3 01:37:31 AEST 1988


/ hpisoa1:comp.unix.microport / woods at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) / 11:17 am  Jul 30, 1988 /
>Anyone who thinks Xenix is reliable has NEVER seen a truely reliable system.
>I worked with >10 Xenix 2.2.1 286 systems for a period 9 months.  At
>least one of them crashed every (working) day, and often they were up and
>down like yo-yo's.  Many of the crashes were due to kernel bugs.  Only a
>small percentage could be attributed to hardware or local software (ie.
>device drivers).  Many of the bugs are still un-found.

    I've dumped everything I've ever wanted at XENIX 2.2.3 and it's never,
ever, crashed or locked.  Could you give us some details on what crashed
it?  It might be interesting to see what should be avoided.

				Thanks in advance,
				Andy Valencia
				vandys%hpisoa1 at hplabs.hp.com



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