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Re: Apple?

#429
From: Chad Irby
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 16:16
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Joe Sloan (jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu) wrote:

: 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...

You don't have to sit at a machine to use it.  If there are processes 
running that are supposed to do things, then it's being used by someone.

If there's nobody using the machine, you should turn it off and save some 
energy...
-- 

Chad Irby           /    My greatest fear: that future generations will,
cirby@gate.net     /      for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."
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