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From: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: more on the "routed" thing, and a lesson...
Date: 29 Jan 1995 02:11:10 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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In article <3gcqrp$q90@satisfied.elf.com>, *Hobbit* <hobbit@asylum.sf.ca.us> writes:
|> WRT "mysterious crashes" Setting the DRAM wait state from 0 
|> to 1 fixed it, and a lesson was learned.

I think you learned a valuable lesson.  FBSD2.0 is not Rock Solid,
but it is still a lot more robust that some people think.  For
example it is much more robust that some very expensive
commercial Unix(tm) OSes I could name.  When you get strange
and mysterious results with it, *First* suspect your hardware.
*Especially* if it runs ``fine with dos''.

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