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

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From: Christopher C. Wood
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:50
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In article <danpop.826236568@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:

|> 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.

But Sun workstations that are NFS clients may become useless until
they are rebooted.  Semantically, how this differs from a crash is
very subtle, at best.  This is a "feature" can really get in the way
at times.

Chris
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Speaking only for myself, of course.
Chris Wood    christw@lexis-nexis.com   ChrisCWood@eworld.com
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From: christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood)
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: 11 Mar 1996 16:50:52 GMT
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