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From: ajai@ffast.ffast.att.com (Ajai Khattri)
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing!
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References: <D5yxwn.5BG@sdf.saomai.org> <vsocciD629vw.HH1@netcom.com> <796308312.14@cs.york.ac.uk> <0098E363.D9CBC01E@sacto.mp.usbr.gov>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 21:24:34 GMT
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In article <0098E363.D9CBC01E@sacto.mp.usbr.gov>,
 <henrym@sacto.mp.usbr.gov> wrote:
>In article <796308312.14@cs.york.ac.uk>, pete@minster.york.ac.uk (Pete Fenelon) writes:
>>esl@sdf.saomai.org (Eric S. Lamemond) wrote:
>>> Fortunately these days no one needs to use a debugger.  In the
>>> >superior operating systems (such as SunOS, ULTRIX, AIX and LINUX) the system
>>> >does what is called a PANIC .. the machine then just needs to be rebooted
>>> >therefore debugging is not necessary.
>>
>
>	Which needs to occur every few days anyway in UNIX.

Not on a properly setup maintained system. I think your average Windoze user
has to reboot a damn sight more often than a Unix user.

(At least with a Unix system you get to look at a crash dump ;-)


Aj.
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