very weird, because i've been using it for multiple users and a ftp and
web site for several months with my only problems arising from the hard
disk driver being inappropriate for my new hard disk. that was the worst.
but changing kernel and booter fixed it. i find it incredibly stable - but
i suppose i'm comparing it to system 7 ;-)

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John Ostrowick
Computer Science Department,   University of the Witwatersrand
1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, South Africa. Senate House 1012
Phone: +27 11 716-3783         Fax: +27 11 339-3513
jon@cs.wits.ac.za              jon@is.co.za
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On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Curtis Smith wrote:

> I should preface this by saying I'm sure that a lot of hard work has
> been done my a lot of people to get the port this far.
> 
> I have been trying fot the last three weeks to run BSD on both a MacIIx
> and an LC II. And have tried 1.2, generic-77, and generic-78. Booted
> from systems 7.5, 7.5.3, and 7.5.5. Used booters 1.9.4 and 1.9.6.
> 
> The basic quest should be for stability in the system. I experienced
> random drops into the debugger, segmentation errors, random freezes and
> a few really wierd problems such as logining in as a user and getting a
> quazi-root connection that only power down could clear.
> 
> For now, I'm pulling out an old '386 and using Linux, as NetBSD is not
> stable enough, in my opinion, for even basic or casual use.
> 
> Curtis Smith
>