Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

[Markus Huber]

Graham Campbell wrote:

> I am an old-timer and remember the big old mainframes, especially the
> CDC 6600 and CDC 7600. These were cooled with circulating refrigerant.
> An undisciplined power outage definitely caused problems due to spiking
> temps. CDC did a study that showed a dramatic increase in failures about
> 7 days (as I recall) after a power failure.

I am not that expert on this one, but isn't cooling with a refrigerant 
similar to a car engine? The temperature of the refrigerant is going up 
because it stopped circulating?

But most of modern PCs are air-cooled like old Porsches or VW Beatles, 
and you *were* able to cool down overheated engines by switching off the 
engine.

If a modern car overheats, you should not switch it off immediatly 
because of the refrigerant.

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Markus Huber