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In <mazulauf-0503961125300001@grumpy.met.utah.edu> mazulauf@atmos.met.utah.edu (Mike Zulauf) writes:

>In article <danpop.825958803@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
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>> 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.
>
>You obviously missed my point, or you deliberately chose to ignore it.  My
>original comment was to someone who claimed that Sun's operating systems
>almost never crashed, or something to that effect.  I merely responded
>that I've been the victim of quite a few crashes when working on Suns. 

And my main point, which _you_ missed, was that a correctly administrated
Sun doesn't crash.  I backed my point with hard data, from workgroup
servers which support several users working from X terminals every day.
Their uptime is now in the forty-something range.

>I
>never made any claims that the MacOS was anywhere near as stable.  In fact
>I specifically stated that it wasn't.
>
>So why don't you try to read what I wrote, rather than putting words in my
>mouth, and then come back to talk about it?

I don't remember putting any words in your mouth.  The comparison with
MacOS was made only to annoy you ;-)

Dan
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