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From: camber@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Brian Bruns)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
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Date: 19 Sep 1996 00:19:47 GMT
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Brian Wheeler (bdwheele@indiana.edu) wrote:
[big snip]
: 	Hmmm.  Funny thing about NT...if you take an .EXE and xor the
: contents of the file with random numbers, run it, and repeat, after a few 
: minutes you can get a program that will KILL NT...blue screen...memory dump...
: the works!
: 	A friend of mine did this and it took less than 6 minutes.
: 	Brian Wheeler
: 	bdwheele@indiana.edu
Hmm.. All I have to do is unplug my ethernet and NT crashes.  Never had 
Unix do that one! 

Brian Bruns
camber@ais.org