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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
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Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 18:33:05 GMT
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In article <5d8ikn$801$1@Venus.mcs.net> les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>What's 'more reliable' than never crashing? 

Lots of machines in a variety of "stressful" environments never crashing?

That is, you can't judge a system as reliable in general just on the
basis of your machine in your application.  I ran 386BSD 0.1 for ages
without problems :-)

-- Richard

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