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From: kenny@thomas.com (Kenny Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
Subject: Re: Difference between "operator" and "system administrator"?
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.225817.4395@thomas.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 22:58:17 GMT
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jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:

>A local company is going unix in a big way and one of the MIS Dept. 
>managers posed a question I was unable to answer.  They have AS400's and
>a couple of VAXs for which they have "operators".  The question was:  What
>is the difference between a system administrator and an operator?  


That's an easy one...

A REAL System Administrator stays as far away 
from a company's MIS Department as possible. :-)



__Lizzard.