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From: almesber@lrc.epfl.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 21 Jul 1995 15:34:16 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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In article <3ul4g2$i6n@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> Btw., the shortest time between crashes on an SGI has been < 1 hour.

What on earth have you been doing with that poor machine ? I've had a
4D 70GT (R2000, 16 MB RAM, IRIX 4.x) which reliably survived hundreds
of days of (heavy) use. My experience with IRIX is about the contrary
of yours: I consider it one of the best comercially available UNIX
systems.

- Werner
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