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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: MEMORY TEST PREMATURELY REMOVED?
To: pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (william pechter ILEX)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 10:59:48 MDT
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In-Reply-To: <199504131114.EAA15916@wcarchive.cdrom.com> from "william pechter ILEX" at Apr 13, 95 07:11:36 am
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> >    The memory test was removed because it took too long on machines with a
> > lot of memory (a lot is >= 64MB) and wasn't effective in finding real memory
> > problems anyway.
> 
> Well, it fixed my wife's OS/2 installation crash problem and her 
> Linux sig 11's.  Turned out to be bad memory.

Time for a boot option, like Sun?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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