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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3663 comp.unix.bsd:15814 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7968 comp.os.linux.misc:32811 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4673 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!agphx.agcs.com!not-for-mail From: robertsw@agcs.com (Wallace Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: VMS,WNT,Alphas was re: interested in PowerPC... Date: 30 Dec 1994 13:15:30 -0700 Organization: agcs Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3e1pp2$psp@oscar.agcs.com> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3depog$npm@fnnews.fnal.gov> <JRICHARD.94Dec23150646@sable.uml.edu> <D1Ct2A.LAo@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oscar.agcs.com peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: [ ...snip happens... ] >We evaluated it at work. The fast reboots are very nice. The database >impacts were ghastly. IOW, TANSTAAFL. you were making payments for those fast reboots each time you accessed a database. gears, ye wilde ryder -- robertsw@agcs.com | 86 cr250 "dirt devil" 83 v65 magna "animal" "E Pluribus Unix" | 79 it250 "mr. reliable" 82 v45 magna "elliot" "Criminals (especially tyrants) prefer unarmed victims." "...sunlight on chrome, the blur of the landscape, every nerve aware."