> Most servers on the Internet or serving industries that need 24/7 > service must run 24/7. I don't know if Linus originally was aiming for > the server market, or what his intent was. ;-) Well, he wanted a way to run Unix cheaply using a desktop environment, and one of the features of Unix is that it is multiuser, and unlike other systems (i.e., "personal" computer OSes) is designed to run 24/7. I remember one of the first Unix books I picked up stressed this point. And since it has services like crond, logging, and so forth, the system needs to be on to process these events. (DOS at that time had no such features; the closest we came to that was a robot comm program we could use to autodownload stuff at 3 am or whatever.) I think this rationale predates the notion of "server" as we use it today. > Randy Kramer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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