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From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Power-up/power-down
Message-ID: <1493@autodesk.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 90 03:42:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU's message of 19 Dec 90 07:46:46 GMT

>Your documentation was written by someone who mistook the NeXT
>for a PC.

It is a PC. The cube is a personal computer. It is a PC. The cube is a 
personal computer. The network is not the computer. Are we clear on this?
Class dismissed.

I see nothing special about the NeXT that makes it any more sensitive
to corrosion, dust buildup or condensation than the average garden 
variety PC clone. Turn it off and on as often as you like. If it
were a workstation they wouldn't hide all of the bootup gobbledegook that
you normally see when you boot up a Sun machine. Set up your crontab to
look at your mail at half hour intervals when it's on, what difference
does it make if you're on uunet? Can you not set your connection interval
at daily or something?


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Gary T. Lang  (415)332-2344 x2702  
Autodesk, Inc.
Sausalito, CA.
MCI: 370-0730