WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Jul 14 20:55:46 UTC 2005


On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:36, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> Umm, there are two packages called Memtest86.  The one at
>> http://www.memtest86.com/ is at version 3.3.  The one at
>> http://www.memtest.org/ (actaully called memtest86+) is currently at
>> version 1.60.  The latter was forked from the former around version
>> 3.0.
>>
> Any special reason for the fork?  This one does seem faster, like some
> of the more time consuming bit twiddling tests are left out.

According to the memtest.org site, it looked in 2004 like the original was 
abandonware.  Apparently the original package is being maintained again, 
but some of the 3.2 update came from the fork's 1.30.  Incestuous, isn't 
it?

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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