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In <cirby-0703961245320001@pm3-19.magicnet.net> cirby@magicnet.net (Chad Irby) writes:

>danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
>
>>cirby@magicnet.net (Chad Irby) writes:
>
>>>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.
>
>Hint: You have no idea of what a Mac can or can't do.
>
>You wanted a "comparable up time on a non-idle Mac box," and I gave it to
>you.  If you want Workgroup Server times, the best I know of is about six
>months (yes, I know what a WS is, and *yes*, Macs have been doing it for
>years).  

Nope, you obviously don't.  How many dozens of interactive users,
connected from ASCII and X terminals does a Mac "workgroup server"
support?  The MacOS interactive multiuser support is known as one of its 
main selling points, right?

>Here's another one: I have another client that bought a small server (a
>6150 series) last year.  They've taken it down twice, both times to move
>to different offices.  Bigger offices- they're expanding like crazy. 
>Other than that, it's run smooth and uninterrupted for the last six
>months.  It does everything from print sharing to file sharing to program
>serving.  It's the main repository for the whole office, and they have had
>*zero* problems.

How many interactive users are running their number crunching applications
on that server?

If you want a stable file and print server, MSDOS + Lantastic is good 
enough for the job.  Been there, done that.

Dan
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