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Tom L. Davis (davis@adrs1.dseg.ti.com) wrote:
: This certainly does not reflect my experience with unix machines. Just
: today, my X-terminal crashed while trying to run a 3270 emulator. In my

And what do your X-terminal crashes tell about Unix? Nothing.

: experience, the ratio of Mac reboots to Sun reboots is no better than two
: or three to one. Unix may not crash in the Mac sense of the word, but they
: become unusable fairly often. The only solution seems to be a shutdown and
: restart. Many times they can be taken down somewhat gracefully, but still
: they must be rebooted. And they take a _lot_ longer to boot than MacOS.

Heh. Reboot is the lazy way out. Sometimes when I don't bother to restart 
some services from scratch myself I just reboot the computer to let the 
startup scripts take care of it. Maybe this is the thing you're referring 
to. If a Unix machine is capable of going down gracefully, you should be 
able to get it up and running and fully functional without a reboot, even 
if you had to kill next to all processes and start them over.

	- Mjr

Mikko Rauhala | E-mail: mjr@lyseo.otol.fi | URL: http://www.lyseo.otol.fi/~mjr
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