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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:10890 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4074 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!news.coventry.ac.uk!news From: justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk (Justin Murdock) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Date: 27 Jul 1995 21:34:19 +0100 Organization: Visual and Information DEsign centre, Coventry Universtiy Lines: 27 Message-ID: <justinznavxvvmtbl9@virtue.vide.coventry.ac.uk> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <id.VAPL1.0SA@nmti.com> <3uhstv$pf@empire.texas.net> <3ul4g2$i6n@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3uohdo$5s2@disunms.epfl.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: @vide-gate.coventry.ac.uk In-reply-to: almesber@lrc.epfl.ch's message of 21 Jul 1995 15:34:16 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.45 >>>>> "Werner" == Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.epfl.ch> writes: Werner> In article <3ul4g2$i6n@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch Werner> <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >> Btw., the shortest time between crashes on an SGI has been < 1 >> hour. Werner> What on earth have you been doing with that poor machine ? Werner> I've had a 4D 70GT (R2000, 16 MB RAM, IRIX 4.x) which reliably Werner> survived hundreds of days of (heavy) use. My experience with Werner> IRIX is about the contrary of yours: I consider it one of the Werner> best comercially available UNIX systems. We've managed a 5 minute crash time - 4D35 80 MB Ram IRIX 5.3. simply log in, start Netscape 1.1s, start strn. Wait 5 seconds Kernal panic. blow out on the suprhighway. SGI sez its our hard disc? -- ~ o - "There is nothing a vulture hates more than a glass eye." | - \_/ - Justin Murdock, +44 1203 337865. This man is very strange