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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: CRASH your TANDEM : was : RE : How do you make your UNIX crash
Keywords: panic that kernel
Message-ID: <669020852.14148@mindcraft.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 07:07:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.202237.23294@ugle.unit.no>
halvard@spurv.runit.sintef.no (Halvard Halvorsen) writes:
>did you fellas read the signature to this guy ???
> i mean : he works for tandem computers - so the reason why he asks for how
> to crash 'your UNIX' should be obvious ???   ;^)

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> TANDEM Computers Incorporated 76 Berry St, North Sydney, NSW, 2060, Australia

Um, yes; Tandem's business is  high-availability computing.

>so next question - how do you make a tandem computer running UNIX
>crash ...

The answer to that question would probably be more interesting
to "this guy" than would answers about other computers.  I talked
to a couple of Tandem engineers after USENIX this January.  They
bragged that their systems failed the SVVS (requiring waivers)
because some tests to invoke PANIC messages didn't work; Tandem
UNIX doesn't crash under some of the conditions expected by AT&T.

The more ways they find to crash their own computers, the happier
they'll be.  They'll identify more problems they can solve in the
lab rather than in the field.

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
	Mindcraft, Inc.		(415) 323-9000