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From: gregk@ubvax.UB.Com (Greg Kendall)
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Subject: Re: Computer on 24hrs.day? (yes or no)
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Date: 29 Mar 90 20:15:11 GMT
References: <28294@ubvax.UB.Com> <MORGAN.90Mar28233102@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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In article <MORGAN.90Mar28233102@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dylan Kaufman) writes:

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>My undertanding is that it is indeed harder on the system to have the
>shock of being turned on than to be left on, but that the difference

This is exactly my point. A lot of people "understand" this point.
I know of no evidence (such as MTBF numbers) on which to beleive it.