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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
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Subject: Re: The GS Axe is Not Falling
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Date: 26 Apr 91 01:00:03 GMT
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From alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER):

>>WRONG, and our computer users would find your claims ludicrous.
>
> Geez, talk about spoiled!  What did they cut their teeth on?  Macs?
> That's the mentality you ascribe to them--"damn, the HD failed; guess
> we're gonna have to call it a day, huh?"  I find it hard to believe
> that they'd be completely lost without all their normal whiz-bang
> widgets; the attitude you describe is pathetic.

    I don't know if you or Todd realize this (he *should*), but if you a hard
drive on even a single-user computer, most of your data will be on the hard
drive, with perhaps a not-so-recent backup elsewhere.  If my hard drive went
down, I would not be able to do any work, since all my data is on there, and
the backups locked away on floppy.  So let's say I'm working on a large
programming project and I lose the HD.  What am I supposed to do with a cheesy
built-in text editor or terminal?  Diddle away while I figure out what to do? 
I'm not even hinting at the chaos that would occur if the HD server went down
in a government department, company office or school network.

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."