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# The Good, the Bad, and the, uh, QL?

A couple of months ago at the CATS meeting we were sharing about QL’s etc. and to my surprise, it seemed that we had about an equal number of CATS members who:

1. Had never had ANY problems with their QL locking up and/or crashing after an hour of two of ‘normal’ operation.
2. Still had those occasional lock-up/crash experiences, usually after an hour or two of ‘normal’ operation.