Computers that never crash (Was: Microsoft-Paul Allen)

[Alan Perry]

> On Oct 23, 2018, at 8:48 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 10/22/2018 08:33 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>>> You've discovered some computer that doesn't ever crash?
>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
>>> Hmmm, well, my home desktop has been up 478 days, my web server has been up 232 days, and my Asterisk phone system has been up for 571 days.  The web server is directly on the WAN, and subject to constant attacks, too. That's pretty close to never crashing in my book!  These are all Linux systems.
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>> I really should get around to putting together a UPS -
>> nothing here has been up more than nine hours, . . .
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> OH, and NONE of these systems are on a UPS!  Now, usually, we have a power interruption a few times a year, so this has been a rather exceptional stretch.
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I have a RPi dedicated to a SIMH VAX-11/750 running BSD that I intended to leave up and rack up some impressive uptime. Then I was reminded by the local electricity provider that this isn’t the right place to try that. We get clear day, calm weather power outages here.

alan