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From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Which UNIX pc kernel is better? 3.51 or 3.51a?
Summary: 3.51a is useless to me.
Keywords: /unix, 3.51, 3.51a, panic
Message-ID: <301@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 88 19:25:24 GMT
References: <380@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Organization: Pittsburgh Fish Hackery, Pittburgh, PA
Lines: 21

In article <380@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>Which kernel has the "net-at-large" found to be more reliable for a system
>with heavy UUCP traffic?

I frequently dial into ditka from a vt340 pretending to be a
vt100.  After running uEmacs, rn, Elm, or just about anything
else that does fancy-ish screen stuff, the 3.51a kernel goes
into a mode where all output looks sort of like it's got the
wrong baud rate (but not exactly).  The Hot-Line folks said
"Yup, it's hosed"; I switched back to the 3.51 kernel.

With 3.51 I was seeing a fair number of the hung window
manager problems until I got HDB and a TrailBlazer.  Not
sure which one did the trick, but I've only had one crash
of any kind since then, and that was a memory parity error.

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