Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:09:39 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools... Message-ID: <199604240339.NAA14757@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <6539.830304154@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 23, 96 05:02:34 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > The best you can hope for right now is "CheckIt" from TouchStone > software, it runs under DOS and no I haven't even the faintest idea > whether or not it will detect your particular problem. Probably not, > but it's the best attempt at a software hardware checker that I know > of. Don't waste any money on it. If you get it as a freebie, that's fine, but they're honest enough in the manual to point out that their tests aren't anything compared to the load a mutltitasking VM OS imposes. (We got it Real Cheap when we were having RAM trouble; it didn't find the problem, and this was a RAM error so bad that _Windows_ would barf.) > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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