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to: Paul Edwards
from: Rod Speed
date: 1996-07-10 07:54:04
subject: system outage

PE> The system has been out since 5am.  OS/2 had hung.  The system was in the
PE> middle of doing a zip compression when it happened (daily maintenance).
PE> Time to move to an OS with source I reckon.  I'm part of the way there.

RS> Corse that assumes that you are actually capable of finding and
RS> swatting a bug thats seen so rarely, even if you do have source code.

PE> At least each time it happens I can put in more and more
PE> debug info until I know the line of code responsible,

Yeah, well, its a bit more complicated than that with
a full OS thats falling over like that so rarely.

PE> rather than what I currently do, which is reboot
PE> the machine and do nothing. It's certainly worked
PE> with the other stuff I have source code to.

Yes, but they aint OSs are they ?
@EOT:

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