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Article #3302Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Martin Nisshagen
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 12:34
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 12:34
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Chad Irby wrote: > Hmmm. One of my clients called me a few months back, asking me for some > help. He has a Mac server that's been in operation for a couple of years, > and he wanted to know if it was okay to shut it down to change out the UPS > (which was a few years old- he wanted to swap batteries). > > It was an old Mac II that had been running- uninterrupted and quietly > sitting in a closet- since early 1992. No shutdowns, no crashes. I don't think it's very fair to compare a utility who shares files from a hd to users on a network with Unix computers who has many users who actually run applications on them (it's usually when you run applications with errors that some not-so-good OS'es crashes). Even DOS can, with some simple software, share files over a network. Even if you run a DOS computer doing so for over 10 years I still wouldn't take this as an example of DOS as being a very protected and stable OS. Best regards, m a r t i n n -- Martin Nisshagen martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0) "verdi + callas = MTS Technology, Sweden http://www.mts.se/martin 100% pleasure..."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mn5.swip.net!news From: Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 13:34:55 +0100 Organization: MTS Technology Message-ID: <313ED7EF.99F@mts.se> References: <mazulauf-2202962208530001@grumpy.met.utah.edu> <AD580C79-6B2AC@153.37.136.28> <mazulauf-0303961034400001@grumpy.met.utah.edu> <danpop.825958803@rscernix> <cirby-0603960035300001@pm5-22.magicnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup100-1-1.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: ae3c2e151a3289f0cece4e86c3df4503 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (WinNT; I)