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From: "Thomas Weihrich" <Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New BSDI Pricing
Date: 22 Apr 1997 22:06:59 GMT
Organization: C. v. Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg - Fachbereich Informatik
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cweng@garlic.engr.ucdavis.edu (~{#@HNNRRy#@~}) writes:

>Thomas Weihrich (Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE) wrote:
>: It's all a matter of stability and availability.
>: My NT machine crashed 8 times during installation and then every 5
>: minutes.
>: It's been running BSD/OS for 15 months now without a single hardware
>: related crash (2.1 with no crash at all)

>How come you had so much trouble installing NT, it is easy!  It didn't 
>crash when I installed it.  Don't try to install NT on a 386, try it on a 
>pentium and you will see when it crashed 8 times.

This was on an AMI Titan 3 Dual Pentium PCI/EISA board with 64 MB of ECC
memory and 512 k pb cache.
It was an NT certified system.

>Good luck.

>-Terrence
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