Re: Apple?

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 18:26

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In article <rmcassid-0108951704580001@dante.eng.uci.edu>,
Robert Cassidy <rmcassid@uci.edu> wrote:
>In article <3vlnnh$c47@dockmaster.phantom.com>, wozz@wookie.net (I'm Wozz)
>wrote:
>
>> Arun Gupta (gupta@mrspock.mt.att.com) wrote:
>> 
>> : So it takes two people to run a UNIX box ?  No wonder you need all that
>> : pre-emptive multi-tasking !
>> 
>> no, it takes one person to run a Unix box....the others are users...
>
>OK, so it takes two people to *use* a UNIX box. Better?

hmm... this is getting tedious...

A unix machine can be used by zero or more persons at any point in time.
(a unix machine is typically busy running tasks whether there are zero, 
one, twenty or 500 people actively using it.)

The bottom line: there is no minimum number of users, and the maximum
number of simultaneous users is a function of system resources, e.g. 
CPU power & installed RAM...

(Why am I explaining the obvious? perhaps there are some simple souls 
reading this newsgroup to whom these are actually *new* concepts.)

--
 Joe Sloan     jjs@engr.ucr.edu   http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu
     Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux...
 Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!

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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Apple?
Date: 2 Aug 1995 18:26:22 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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