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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:13:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To:        Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org>
Cc:        "Question@FreeBSD.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Hello all
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951107171217.427C-100000@flinch.io.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951103174159.17327B-100000@w8hd.w8hd.org>

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On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Kim Culhan wrote:
> 
> SunOs 4.1.3 can stay up forever if your applications let it.

    Only a poor OS would allow userland applications decide whether it
lives or dies.  ;-)  A misbehaving Windows application will crash the
entire machine.  A misbehaving UNIX application shouldn't affect
anything other that itself, and certainly not the kernel.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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