From: steve@riscey.cstat.co.za (Stephen Davies) Subject: Re: X terminals: Suggestion for projects like SLS, MCC, etc. Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 19:24:32 GMT
In article <1993Jun14.122904.6530@taylor.uucp> mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>
>>In article <1993Jun13.161425.375@taylor.uucp> mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>>>hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>>>
>>>>In article <1993Jun11.123208.1166@taylor.uucp> mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>>>>>ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>>>>>
>>>You are confussed. The server is running on the X terminal. Your statement
>>>makes no sense. If you are refering to the host: why would that go down.?
>>>Or properly managed host is up 24 hours a day 265 days a year. It is down
>>>for maintenance about 10 minutes a month. It has gone down unexpectly
>>>three times in five years.
>
>>Well, I use a networking service, netcom, and I can tell you it has gone
>>down quite a few times and it is being managed by a professional staff.
>
>That is unfortunate. I place a great deal of empasis on quality. All cable
>is best- connectors are gold plated, all cable is run in steel conduit, etc...
>It really does make a difference.
>
You guys are having such fun flaming each other that you missed
the fact that Mark's "properly managed host" is down 100 days of the year...
Steve