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In article <5gpddf$4ns@client2.news.psi.net>,
os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
|Or they suffer just as we do....besides, those corporations mostly turn
|off their desktop PCs when the 8 hours end.

Turn off PCs? That would mean inviting premature hardware problems.
I never turn off any PC unless it has to be upgraded. Neither do any
companies I have worked with. With OS/2, all it does when unattended is
to blank the screen and issue a halt instruction. Runs cool, does not
wear out the screen, and does not fatigue electronics by needless
power on surges and temperature cycling.
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|Hmmm, take that large database file of 4GB for exmple <G>.....

That is hardly a large database file. I do not remember the limits
offhand, but both ISAM files and DB2 tables can be rather larger than
what you can realistically expect to install hardware for on a PC.
For DB2, I think the table size can be 512GB spread out over several
physical drives. The maximum database size is several terabytes.
An ordinary sequential access file is limited to 64GB, while simple
direct access is limited to 2GB.