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Article #3333Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: bryan white
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 22:42
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 22:42
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Dan Pop wrote: [lots deleted] > >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. Uhmm, is that "doesn't crash" like never? Or is it very rarely panics, or is "correctly admistered" defined as the O/S never has problems. I have no idea how long Mac's keep running, but I think even unix servers "crash on occasion. > Dan > -- > Dan Pop > CERN, CN Division > Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch > Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland bryan
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