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- From: exidor@toshiki.stu.rpi.edu (Christopher Masto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: IRC request
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 01:50:41 GMT
- Organization: Toshiki Information Society
- Message-ID: <4hdi9h$bvi@usenet.rpi.edu>
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- In article <2542.6635T738T1477@robertson.rhein-main.de>,
- Chris Robertson <chris@robertson.rhein-main.de> wrote:
- >Well, I find the Amiga quite stable when it is sitting there doing only one
- >thing (like raytrace.. had mine going for 14 days without a problem before).
- >The problems start appearing when I am simultaneously doing about 10 other
- >things. So if the amiga running the IRC server was doing nothing else and the
- >server software was well written, it would be OK. IMHO.
-
- This is absolutely true.. I could compile ircd and run it on my Amiga,
- and it would probably stay up forever, as long as I don't try to use
- the machine for something else. I wouldn't, of course.. I profer to
- use my Amiga for more interesting things, and run the server on my
- NetBSD machine.
-
- >Also, isn't it possible to add UPS capabilities to any computer? Just get one
- >of those external UPSs. And why would you want to change HDs? For an IRC
- >server, I can't see why that would matter... I have no idea if AmiTCP would be
- >up to it though...
-
- Well, it's silly to argue over hot swapping and such, considering it's
- rather uncommon for irc servers to be considered important enough to
- run on such machines. Splits are more often due to network problems
- than the hardware they are running on.
-