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In article <cirby-0703961245320001@pm3-19.magicnet.net>,
Chad Irby <cirby@magicnet.net> wrote:
>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).  
>
>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.
>

Just for grins I thought I would add this to the list for Mac uptimes:

12:25am  up 185 days,  3:18,  2 users,  load average: 0.38 0.32 0.42

This box is a MUD server so it sees mostly a mixture of the MUD, gcc, gdb
and a lot of access over the net.

Tony