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From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring - private opinion
Message-ID: <756@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 90 15:32:12 GMT
References: <1990Aug16.174514.2646@NCoast.ORG> <15759@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <3895@altos86.Altos.COM> <1990Aug31.172329.1964@ico.isc.com> <1990Sep2.112938.4462@hq.demos.su>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
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In article <1990Sep2.112938.4462@hq.demos.su> avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov) writes:
> [ several pieces of reasonable advice deleted ]
>	NEVER use software w/o source codes - it gives you no chance
>	to improve reliability of your installation.

I'm curious, Vadim. What operating system do you use? All of them I've
dealt with, the vendors didn't consider releasing the source code. There
are a few real limited OSs distributed as public domain or shareware,
but I don't think there are many sites using Minix or Xinu commercially.
Certainly, AT&T hasn't generally released the source for UNIX without a
(expensive) license; Microsoft to my knowledge hasn't licensed source to
more than a couple of repackagers, and DRI never released source for any
version of CP/M or DR-DOS. There are limits to what you can get.

If you were seeing "hard cpu errors", I'd suspect the cpu chip or board,
more than the OS.

-- 
    Gary Heston     { uunet!sci34hub!gary  }    System Mismanager
   SCI Technology, Inc.  OEM Products Department  (i.e., computers)
"The esteemed gentlebeing says I called him a liar. It's true, and I
regret that." Retief, in "Retiefs' Ransom" by Keith Laumer.