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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: leave OS/2 running - the monitor too?
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 18:37:12 GMT
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- In article <Bzpsq1.A80@world.std.com> bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda) writes:
- >TURN IT OFF. If you're not making smogulous smog you can see then you're
- >making smogulous smog you can't see, and if you're not making smogulous
- >smog then you're flooding people from their homelands and poisoning the
- >waterways.
-
- Standard enviro-weenie scare tactics.
-
- The simple fact is that the computer running all night uses less electricity
- than many other things that we take for granted as running all night...like
- refrigerators, air conditioners,...
-
- >If you were designing a computer, wouldn't you design it so that it could
- >withstand the tremendous pressures of being turned on and off once a day
- >for a few years?
-
- Power-up stresses are responsible for most electronic failures, computer and
- otherwise. In particular, it's very hard on things like disk drives to turn
- them on and off, and some of them (like the Conner CP3044 in the machine I'm
- typing on at the moment) don't like to turn on after being off for a while.
-
- Leave it on. You're not going to hurt anything, and you'll make your computer
- happier.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
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