Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 03:22

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In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.960203123538.9641A-100000@skule.ecf>, HSUEH 
WALTER C <hsuehw@ecf.toronto.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Nevin :-] Liber wrote:
> My point was not to throw around jargon, but you're right; PMT by 
> itself is not a guarantee of OS stability.

That's an understatement.  It's neither necessary nor sufficient in
preventing crashes.  In other words, it is irrelevant with respect to
crashes.  About the only guarantee that can be made is that it can prevent
starvation of the CPU for other processes.
-- 
        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799

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From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 20:22:49 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona
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