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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 26 Jul 1995 15:51:24 GMT
Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
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References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <DC3sEM.1Jr@saturn.tlug.org> <tgmDC46x0.A4M@netcom.com> <3v4l78$ltr@enigma.uniserve.com>
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In article <3v4l78$ltr@enigma.uniserve.com>,
Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> wrote:
| In article <tgmDC46x0.A4M@netcom.com>, tgm@netcom.com says...
| 
| >Without a doubt, the crash of '95 was ftp.cdrom.com and FreeBSD.  What
| >was the cost to the Internet community? What would be the cost to your
| >business to lose connectivity for a week? How "Free" is FreeBSD when
| >you factor in over a week of downtime? Face it, if you need 24 hour per
| >day, 365 day per year reliability, FreeBSD will *NOT* cut it.
| 
|   Wait a second, the crash was a HARDWARE failure (SCSI controller and 
| several drives).

Stop posting facts, it confuses zealots...