Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:42:12 -0400 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [(borderline) OT]: memtest question Message-ID: <55E475D4.2080603@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <20150831015922.GA6804@milliways> References: <55E3AFB4.9050607@hiwaay.net> <20150831015922.GA6804@milliways>
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> I had never heard of passmark memtest until you mentioned it, but it > appears to be the current version of memtest86, unless I am mistaken? Sorta. Way back when, there was only one version, "memtest86", which was an open source freeware thing. Like a lot of smaller open source projects, it languished for a few years with no updates. Enough people thought it was useful that it got forked into "memtest86+" which continued for a few years and became the defacto version. After some time, the original not-plus version got sold off to a company called PassMark who continued work on it (although it was clear from the get-go that they were using it as a money mill, since for the longest time they offered no freeware version for download). While PassMark has continued development on their version (memtest86) more or less continuously, memtest86+ is basically dead at this point. Although if you see my other email, if you're not lucky enough to have a machine that can boot their stupid UEFI version, you're effectively in 2014 forever... in which case neither version really counts as 'current'.
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