Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <3E482172.8A402F67@yahoo.com>,
CBFalconer  <cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Rupert Pigott wrote:
>> "Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
>> > "Glen" <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
>> >
>> > > I used to used to admin an AIX server... it did not crash once. 
>> > > Z-e-r-o times.  And this thing was doing some real work too.
>> >
>> > This will probably be a shock to, well, nobody.  I use a Sun
>> > workstation at work.  Solaris something or other.  The only time
>> > I've ever crashed the thing was running (here's the shocker)
>> > Internet Explorer for Unix.
>> 
>> IE crashed your UNIX box ? Whoa...
>
>Proving that anything from Microsoft has unlimited capabilities. 
>I didn't know such a thing existed, but if it does it is probably
>designed to cause as much trouble as possible.

Crashing Solaris wasn't historically that difficult -- the X-server
was the weak spot, IME.
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Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
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