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danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

>In <cirby-0603960035300001@pm5-22.magicnet.net> cirby@magicnet.net (Chad Irby) writes:

>>danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
>>
>>> Those machines are workgroup servers, all of them are Sun/Solaris boxes
>>> and they've been rebooted 37/39 days ago because their IP addresses were
>>> changed.  No crash since then, on any of them.  Try to get a comparable
>>> up time on a non-idle MacOS box and then come back to talk about the
>>> instability of Unix systems.
>>
>>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).

>Do you have any clue about what "workgroup server" means?
>Hint: it's something a MacOS box can't even dream of.

Dan, learn a little bit about the Mac first. Tell us what you think a
workgroup server  is, why the MacOS can't handle it, and what this has
to do with the stability of MacOS.