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. :)
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