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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: OS for computer illiterate?
Message-ID: <634@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 90 17:23:25 GMT
References: <48500002@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <48500002@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wfd00828@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>How "crash-proof" is, say, SCO Xenix, or Unix, or whatever?  How about 
>someone else's?  What I'm (potentially) looking for is an OS that will allow
>a '386 machine to support, say, five users (terminals?), none of whom know
>more about computers than being a casual MS-DOS (or maybe just TRS-DOS)
>user, including someone acting as site manager.  Any suggestions? 

Just make sure you have an uninterruptable power supply (UPS) attached
to the machine and you'll be fine.  It is unlikely that a naive
user will inadvertantly crash the machine.

-- 
Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232
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