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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Martin Nisshagen
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

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 13:34:55 +0100
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