On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:55, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >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? Rather. :) >-- > Matthew Saltzman > >Clemson University Math Sciences >mjs AT clemson DOT edu >http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
