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From: steinmetz!dawn!stpeters@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Some good press on SunOS 4.0
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Date: 28 Jan 89 06:55:26 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 126, message 6 of 12

Sun-Spots (comp.sys.sun) is a lot like TV news: if something bad happens,
it's news, but the good side doesn't appear.  Given all the bad press that
SunOS 4.0 has gotten of late, some of the good side needs to be told.

According to 'uptime', my group's server has been up 113 days now.  A
3/260 with 4 disks, 9 clients (3/60's, 3/50's, 3/110's), and a
LaserWriter, this machine serves an active imaging and software
development group.  (It is, by the way, on a large and complicated
[IP-subnetted] Ethernet, with machines from almost any vendor you can
think of.)  It just sits there and hums along.

Sure, we found a gotcha or two in going to 4.0 - you always do with any
major OS upgrade, but compared with, say, going from 1.0 to 2.0, the
upgrade to 4.0 was a piece of cake.  4.0 is loaded with goodies for users
and makes system management much easier.

If you're still running 3.X, you're in the dark ages (well, maybe 3.5.1 is
just the grey ages).

Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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