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Article #3313Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dan Pop
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 22:50
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 22:50
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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 -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rcp6.elan.af.mil!rscernix!danpop From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) 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: 6 Mar 96 22:50:57 GMT Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Message-ID: <danpop.826152657@rscernix> 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: ues5.cern.ch X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV)