Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Unix Bugs vs. VMS bugs Message-ID: <450@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 23:43:19 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.450 Posted: Wed Nov 28 23:43:19 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 06:03:50 EST References: <5870@brl-tgr.ARPA> <4659@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Organization: The Galactic Coordinator's office, Klovia Lines: 29 Summary: Ditto. We run Xenix; the last two crashes we had were fairly recent, but before that, the last one was about a year ago. One happened when a visitor to the site decided to pull the fuse out of the system power supply while it was running (!); the other was a result of ``meddling with the unix'' (the latest release of Xenix apparently had a format- without-erase built into it; it also had a bug whereby if you selected the option to have system shutdown position the hard disk head(s) over blank disk space, it'd bash the head against the stop until it broke, so we tried to switch back to the old Xenix, which couldn't read the 1.3.3 format and promptly barfed all over the i-list). Other than these, and a disk error that managed to change an instruction in swap into a TRAP #2 instruction, causing a panic, we have had NO crashes since about this time last year. And the one that happened then was a result of some bad programming by a local programmer; not a true crash, just that everyone including the owner was running a very recursive shell script that would eventually use up all system and user process slots... Only hacked Unixes have software errors; V7 is great, and Xenix on here is great for the most part unless they rush the next version in too soon, as with version 1.3.3 . --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | E1439@CSUOHIO.BITNET (friend's acct.) | BALLBERY (161-7070) on MCI Mail ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Keeping the Galaxies safe for Civilization... :-)