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

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From: Mike Zulauf
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 19:51

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In article <danpop.826236568@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

> 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.

If you believe that 'correctly administrated' Suns don't crash then you
are a fool.  I am sorry to put it so bluntly, but such an absolute blanket
statement is ludicrous.  All systems have faults and bugs.

Just because your systems have been up for a long time proves nothing.  As
others have pointed out, it is possible for a Mac to remain up for
similarly long periods.  Is that proof that 'correctly administrated' Macs
don't crash?  Of course not.

Let me reiterate this.  I find SunOS/Solaris to be reasonably stable. 
Certainly much more so than the MacOS.  But it can and does crash
occasionally, even on 'correctly administrated' machines.  To deny this is
foolishness.

Mike

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Mike Zulauf
mazulauf@atmos.met.utah.edu

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From: mazulauf@atmos.met.utah.edu (Mike Zulauf)
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 13:51:20 -0600
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