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Article #3461Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Jaliya Jayawardena
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:30
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:30
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On 24 Mar 96 21:30:51 GMT, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote: >In <nevin-2203960538520001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes: > >>What version of Netscape? Go to a JavaScript page and let it sit there >>for a while. People have reported not only noticeable slowdowns of their >>machines, but even crashes of the supposedly uncrashable Unix (it has >>memory protection; how could an app possibly crash it? How could the >>Titanic sink?). > >Give me an URL which will cause Netscape 2.0 to crash my Unix box or cut >the crap. > >Dan I can't remember the URL but NS 2.0 has crashed twice on our Unix system (irix I think) It crashed so that I had no keyboard control or anything. However, not a *fatal* crash: I could rlogin from another machine and kill it. It still sucks that it can do that though. Jaliya
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!new-news.cc.brandeis.edu!usenet@new-news.cc.brandeis.edu From: jaliyaj@cs.brandeis.edu (Jaliya Jayawardena) 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: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:30:03 GMT Organization: Default Usenet Organization Message-ID: <31584554.12545749@news.brandeis.edu> References: <4itbl2$320@news.erie.net> <nevin-2203960538520001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <danpop.827703051@rscernix> Reply-To: jaliyaj@cs.brandeis.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.64.111.143 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141