24 Feb
2021
24 Feb
'21
5:19 p.m.
On Feb 24, 2021, at 7:01 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2/24/21 3:11 PM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
Not a general purpose computer, but some SAN storage arrays (clustered storage) I helped
create have logged uptimes measured in years. Those have MIPS engines and NetBSD as one
of the two operating systems (with large modifications).
paul
On 24/02/2021 23:02, stan via cctalk wrote:
> By any chance, are you thinking of uptimes.net?
> Some years ago (early 2000's?) it was tracking systems uptimes. I had
> an Alpha system talking to it at one time.
>
> IIRC, the record at one time was a VAX cluster, with an uptime of
> 1200+ days. Windows NT systems fared a lot worse, average of about 40
> some days....
A modern MCU running Linux with battery backup could beat that easily.
And probably be faster than the VAX.
How far we've come...
--Chuck