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Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools...
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:09:39 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <6539.830304154@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 23, 96 05:02:34 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> 
> The best you can hope for right now is "CheckIt" from TouchStone
> software, it runs under DOS and no I haven't even the faintest idea
> whether or not it will detect your particular problem.  Probably not,
> but it's the best attempt at a software hardware checker that I know
> of.

Don't waste any money on it.  If you get it as a freebie, that's fine,
but they're honest enough in the manual to point out that their tests 
aren't anything compared to the load a mutltitasking VM OS imposes.

(We got it Real Cheap when we were having RAM trouble; it didn't find the
 problem, and this was a RAM error so bad that _Windows_ would barf.)

> 					Jordan

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