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From: tim@ohday.sybase.com (Tim Wood)
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Subject: Re: UNIX vs. the world (again) (was: Compilation listing from Sun ...)
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Date: 17 Jun 91 19:57:10 GMT
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In article <25791@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>
>(I don't know what [ system administration personnel ]
>do, and I don't want to know.  They always seem to be overworked
>and the only time I see _any_ effect of their activities is when they
>accidentally break something and bring my workstation down.)  
>

Too bad you don't have a greater appreciation of system admin.  Have you
ever sent or received mail?  Have you ever dialed out on a modem under
UNIX?  Have you ever had a file restored?  Have you ever wondered how
machines get on the network?  Do you have any notion of shared computing
resources?  If it weren't for system admin people, you
would likely be hacking on an isolated machine with files at the mercy of
the first power or disk failure to happen.  Open the old eyes...
-TW
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