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Article #3334Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Jeff Rugen
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 21:08
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 21:08
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Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
: 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
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: >> up time on a non-idle MacOS box and then come back to talk about the
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: >> instability of Unix systems.
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: >
: >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, I know you're not an idiot - I was impressed with some of what you
said in the portable C thread - but you are a very poor looser. Do you
have any clue what you're arguing about? It certainly doesn't seem like
it - you ask for an example of a comparable up-time on a non-idle MacOS
box and were given one. You loose. Face it and go on to something new
(but please start a new thread when you do so).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.primenet.com!jrugen From: Jeff Rugen <jrugen@primenet.com> 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....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 9 Mar 1996 14:08:02 -0700 Organization: PrimeNet Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4hsrvi$nb7@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> 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> <danpop.826152657@rscernix> X-Posted-By: jrugen@usr4.primenet.com