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Re: Getting files from Caltech

Subject: Re: Getting files from Caltech
From: sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)
Date: 1996/12/30
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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References: <32bf4a9a.2998629@news.emi.com> <32c1d02c.8753299@news.emi.com> <19961228134830292052@dempson.actrix.gen.nz> <32c60206.3063590@167.152.149.11> <5a7tug$c05@darla.visi.com>

In article <5a7tug$c05@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>    In test after test, MacOS boxes have shown that they croak out
> under heavy *server* load, for www, ftp, and the like. Unix boxes are
> the ones that support all the big ftp, www, and usenet loads the best.

Well duh, a UNIX system has protected memory and even if the whole system
goes south (unlikely) it can reboot itself. When a Mac crashes, it's all
over until someone resets it. Even Apple runs its servers on UNIX.

-Sheldon

-- 
W. Sheldon Simms III - sheldon@atlcom.net

References:
- Getting files from Caltech
  - From: drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)
- Re: Getting files from Caltech
  - From: drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)
- Re: Getting files from Caltech
  - From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Re: Getting files from Caltech
  - From: drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)
- Re: Getting files from Caltech
  - From: nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)

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