Is h/w to blame? (was: Re: MS is down again?)

2001-01-29 Thread Bruce McCulley
Benjamin Scott said: On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote: Hey, they never said there were any apps running! FWIW, we once setup an NT 4.0 SP6 server at a customer site, but due to a SNAFU on their part, couldn't hook it up to the LAN for a couple weeks. All it was running

Re: Is h/w to blame?

2001-01-29 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20
Bruce McCulley wrote: FWIW, I've seen different o/s architectures respond differently to h/w faults, so not crashing under Linux would not prove the h/w is clean. Incidentally, that raises an interesting question for discussion, is it better for the o/s to be fault-tolerant and run through