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To: paul who wrote (7400)	2/3/1998 4:38:00 AM
From: Chung Yang	Respond to of 64865

Funny because I hear this all the time. The most common mistake people make with Sun workstations is that some people would turn them off afterwork as they were PCs! These workstations are designed to run 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The idea is why should the your computer stop working when you do? It should continue to receive your e-mail for you or crunch spreadsheet data while you are gone. I am not sure if PC/NT is built to be as robust. Hey, that is the differences between a workstation and a PC that the "masses" do not yet understand. - Chung >>> the good thing about this is that it applies to Sun Workstations as well as multimillion dollar Sun Servers - I recently moved to a Sun Sparcstation at work and my system administrator yelled at me for turning the system off while i was gone for a week since i had some minor configuration error messages i was clueless about since i mostly worked on PC's. Unix messages can be kind of confusing. Now i just keep it on for months and im always running after typing in my password - comparitively it takes forever to constantly boot my Win95 computer and start all the individual applications and if i leave it on overnight the system freezes - I can only hope that my bank uses Microsoft technology and one day i will wake up a Millionaire from a bank error. But hey, its good enough for the masses - as microsoft likes to remind us. <<<