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- From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: WHEN TO TURN OFF MY MACHINE?
- Message-ID: <21212@rpp386.lonestar.org>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 21:01:51 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.214249.24227@athena.mit.edu> <712290043snx@constant.demon.co.uk>
- Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
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- In article <712290043snx@constant.demon.co.uk> slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley) writes:
- >I have a 486 running SVR4 and I leave my machine on all the time. I cannot
- >help feeling that I shall want a new machine before the drives wear out.
- >
- >Leaving the machine on all the time gives you the opportunity to do expensive
- >tasks overnight or to collect/send mail and news. This can be quite handy.
-
- This machine has been on continuously since September, 1987. The main
- harddisk, a 71MB of some unknown lineage, has never been replaced, despite
- rattles that have persisted all this time. The other disk was bought in
- June of 1989 and also goes in circles just fine.
-
- I =do= want a new machine. A 16MHz 386DX isn't anything worth bragging
- about any longer. But it's hard to argue with a machine that just doesn't
- give me any trouble.
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