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From: vladan@idt.UUCP (Vladan Djakovic)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code:
Summary: MIPS M-120 does NOT crash
Keywords: RISC
Message-ID: <186@idt.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 90 16:58:52 GMT
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
Organization: IDT, Santa Clara
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In article <1150@cluster.cs.su.oz>, andrewt@cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor) writes:
> >Prove it.  My Mips RS2030 RISCstation cruised through it, repeatedly, and
> >kept running fine.  Caught every bogus instruction...
> 
> Either you have upgraded from RISC/os 4.5 or you weren't trying hard enough.
> Both our R2000 and R3000 based machines can be "crashed" by the execute random
...

M-120 running UMIPS 4.0 did not crash after 50+ runs with different seeds.
If anybody ever managed to actually crash R[2|3]000 please post exact parameters
given to crash. Any other arguments are immaterial.
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