5 Jun
2013
5 Jun
'13
2:28 p.m.
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Mouse wrote:
[severe no-trimming damage repaired manually]
Well, it's true that "contemporar[]y with those Suns" is a pretty wide
span of time, seeing as how my Suns run from VME-era Sun-3s (-3/260?
-3/240? I forget the numbers) to a SunFire v20z and X4100. Here, I was
really talking about the oldest of them - Sun-3s and early SPARCs.
Were those high-uptime peecees servers or not? My PII was a generic
Gateway board. ;) (440-series chipset.)
Are there exceptions? Yes. I just don't trust newer boards, processors,
and chipsets.
....I've run a lot of Suns, VAXen, etc. And I've run a lot of
peecees. [...] Even after correcting for machine-hours run, the
peecees exhibit much higher failure rates. Maybe one or two of my
dozen or two Suns have failed. I'm not sure I have even _one_
working peecee made contemporarily with those Suns.
My PII was made around the
time as my Netra t1 105. Both are still
100% functional. Hell, my PII ran as a router for >150 days or
so without a single
error or issue. (or power failure!).
So have a few of my peecees, and they're mostly newer than your
"post-PII" line (some of the high-uptime machines definitely are).
Considering them unreliable means I don't count on them to not break;
it doesn't mean I expect them to break.
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