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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Chad Irby
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 17:06
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danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

cirby@magicnet.net (Chad Irby) writes:

> >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 original question was *not* the one you just posted.

He said a Mac, doing anything other than just sit there (running zero
programs), couldn't stay up and running for any length of time.

He was wrong.

And you're doing the same old dodge.  

"The Mac can't do [something generic]"

"Yes it can- here's an example."

"Ah- but I said it couldn't do [something very specific and not too common.]"

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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: 9 Mar 1996 17:06:54 GMT
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