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- From: georg@sgl.ists.ca (Georg Feil)
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:27:03 GMT
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- cm@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Charles Meo) writes:
- >anyone who thinks running a 600-user supermini will be as easy as running a PC
- >in the brave new world is in for a nasty shock.
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- I administer a SunOS 4.1.1 system with diskless workstations and a bunch of
- networked PCs, and to me the PCs are much harder to administer. More
- variability, always need to walk around to each PC to fix things on the local
- disk, no protection in DOS so any user can screw up anything he wants, not to
- mention the horror of Microsoft Windows...
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- Georg.
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