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Article #3315Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Chad Irby
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 05:47
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 05:47
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Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> wrote: > Chad Irby wrote: > > > 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). ...and, again, that wasn't the point. The original comment was that a Mac wouldn't be able to run for any length of time while doing *anything*. A print/file server, while not a heavy-duty job, is definitely something. And right up there with the work being done by some of those "serious" machines we see today. -- cirby@magicnet.net I gave up on the fantasy and am looking for a really good reality...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!pm3-05.magicnet.net!user From: cirby@magicnet.net (Chad Irby) 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: 8 Mar 1996 05:47:42 GMT Organization: MagicNet, Inc. Message-ID: <cirby-0803960047000001@pm3-05.magicnet.net> 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> <313ED7EF.99F@mts.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm3-05.magicnet.net X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.2.0b4