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From: "A.M. Spencer" <A.M.Spencer@ncl.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war
Date: 9 May 1996 14:55:33 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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In article <olYLpsm00iVEQJDsU5@andrew.cmu.edu>, "A. Forest Godfrey" <ag5c+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|> I am a student cluster manager here at CMU
|> and therefore, I have access to all the requests for computer
|> maintainance in public clusters on the campus. I wrote a script to go
|> through them (since they are electronic) and categorize them into our
|> different platforms of machines - Mac, PC, Unix, and Printers (also
|> Unknown/Misc other periferal hardware like scanners). Guess what I
|> found? Exactly what I thought I'd find. There are percentage wise,
|> about as many Mac and IBM service requests. Our Unix workstations are
|> the most reliable, while the printers are the least (though to be fair,
|> they do take a real beating).
Now hold on a minute, I must protest, this can't possbily belong in the holy war
thread - it's a reasonable statement with factual support! What is this thread
coming to?
--Frank
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