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Date:      Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:17:01 +0100
From:      Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>
Subject:   Re: Everything randomly generates .core files
Message-ID:  <4195ED2D.2020508@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEKIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEKIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>You probably have a bad CPU cache on your motherboard.  The solution is
>to use that machine for some Windows system and get a different PC.
>  
>
While I agree with your diagnosis, it's probably a hardware problem, I 
don't think Windows
is going to run well on that machine. I've had FreeBSD run for *hours* 
on flaky hardware,
on which Windows wouldn't make, like, ten minutes.
In the end, faulty hardware beats Operating System, but I've had several 
experiences,
where I did not know just how faulty a piece of hardware was, until I 
tried to run Windows
on it... =)
So in my experience, if FreeBSD is unstable on that hardware, you can 
regard yourself
lucky if you even get Windows installed without crashing all over the 
place. =)

Kind regards,
Benjamin



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