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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: That Crash Thing And Bruce's Speed Enhancing Fix
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 28 Nov 90 02:58:12 GMT
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Well, I made the change back to the pre-Bruce's-5-line-fix so that my
386/33 seems like an XT when running multiple processes.  And it just
crashed again.  So, I guess it's not Bruce's fault after all.  :-)

Has anyone else had any crashing problems?  I'm not even sure if it's
disk activity related anymore.  Here is my current system (but the crashes
happened also when I was in 16-bit mode on my 386):

Even's Minix 386 1.5.10
Irlam's Virtual Console, 4 consoles
*no* Estdio (yet)
Miscellaneous patches indiscriminently added off the Net.

I should probably be more selective about which patches I install.  I was
wanting Estdio, 386, floating point, screen blanker, X-windows, virtual
memory, transparent distributed processing, virtual reality processors,
faster than light travel, 42, etc.  If I can't resolve this I'll go back
to vanilla 1.5.10 and start over with Evan's 386 and Virtual consoles.
(After getting Vcon, I don't understand how I got along without them it.)

And is Estdio as fantastic as I remember the description being?

-- 
"Dad, what should I be when I grow up?"
"Honest." -- Robert M. Pirsig, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence_.

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