Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows
Organization VPEA
Message-ID <cs99ml$5eg3__43747.4579237916$1105734561$gmane$org@ripley.netscape.com>
Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 13-Jan-2005, Andrew DeFaria <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've heard of machines at work running Unix that have been up
>>continually for some 5+ years.
>>
>>Can you're Mac do that?
> 
> 
> I don't know if he is Mac can do that (whatever that means).
I belive it is supposed to read: "....his Mac ..."

Sure Mac's are just as capable of running non-stop as any Machine.
They would more likely run longer, because Unlike PC's Apple use certain 
vendors and they have to build to a certain specification. If the don't 
then Apple finds another vendor that is acpable of manufacturing to 
their specifications. This is one reason Apple products cost more.

ON the Other hand there are bunches of PC manufactures and they get 
their components from the lowest bidder. so that they can build 
fantastic speed demon machines $500-600 on up.

I worked on PC's from Epson, IBM, Winn, even HP and other mainstream 
Manufacturers, While as a technician for a school system. And the inner 
workings of each when opened, no two were alike except possibly the CPU. 
Drives, CD's, Floppies were all different. Even Power Supplies were 
manufactured by different manufacturers, even among the same model 
number and Brand.

So I expect if My Mac was setup with OSX Server software, and properly 
protected againstelctrical failure, and the elements. It most likely 
would still be runing long after any PC or UNIX Server died.

> 
> But I know of OS/2 machines that did that.
> 
> I keep my Windows XP machines on until I have to reboot them because things stop
> working correctly, which happens every couple of weeks or so.  I don't recall
> ever having to do that when I was using OS/2.


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