[H-GEN] Comparison of POSIX OSes

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

Hi all.  In my wandering I cam across this page:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~koopman/ballista/ftcs99/index.html

It is bascially an outline of a paper on the robustness of various POSIX
OSes in unusual situations.  The results are interesting indeed.  Checkout
the graph towards the bottom of the page. 

Proponents of Free|NetBSD and also Linux should be happy as there were no
reported catastrophic failures (I assume this means crashes).  The way I
read the table though, OSes with a 'shorter' overall bar on the bargraph
must have had less overall failures.  Is this an accurate reading of the
bargraph?

Lets not start an OS war here, after all the mailing lists have always
been largely free of them.

This webpage is only an abstract and could probably do with a little more
explanation.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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