Is 4.2BSD a failure?

[William L. Sebok]

> 
>       4.1BSD is a very stable system.  Below is our /usr/adm/shutdownlog for
> the last six months or so, all on an original-release 4.1BSD system with
> UNET networking.  No panics other than machine checks; most of the the
> shutdowns shown below are for scheduled hardware or software service.
> The machine is a 4MB VAX 11/780 with four CDC9766 disk spindles, supporting
> about twenty users at a time.  (This is host FORD-WDL1.ARPA on the Internet.)
>       Is anyone getting this level of stability with a 4.2BSD system?
> Reports on ULTRIX would especially be appreciated.

We are.  We have much less software related crashes now under 4.2 BSD than
when we were running 4.1 BSD a year ago.
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Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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