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From: vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,alt.os.bsdi,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs. BSD386
Date: 30 Jun 93 12:37:54
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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In-reply-to: hasty@netcom.com's message of Wed, 30 Jun 1993 15:00:31 GMT

> Very please to hear that it works properly for you. I know at least
> 16 machines at work which the X server upon startup can crash the
> system with BSD386 1.0 .

Are those 16 machines all similar hw configurations?

Are any of the ones that crash or fail to restore screen state running
an X server that wasn't supplied with BSD/386?
--
Paul Vixie
                                     "Be neither a conformist or a rebel,
<paul@vix.com>                        for they are really the same thing.
decwrl!vixie!paul                     Find your own path, and stay on it." (me)