1 Nov
2001
1 Nov
'01
7:04 a.m.
Where I used to work, there was an IBM PS/2 model 80 that was installed
in a closet to do coordination of manufacturing equipment status and
utilization reports when it was new. It ran DOS. It was deinstalled in
May 2001. It had been running continuously without a crash, except for
losses of power, and that only happened twice in the same year, in 1992.
Peace... Sridhar
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
If you want
the utmost in stability (and you do want that for a wafer fab)
VMS outdoes the competition (yes, also Unix competition!)
us UNIX weenie wave our uptime numbers around at each other, VMS people don't
do that. why? you install VMS, boot the machine, and expect it to run until
you take it offline. the pair of 6000 boxes at the one place i worked at ran
from the day they were installed, up until they were removed from the facility
late last year. never shut down. not once. god i love that stuff.
-brian