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Re: The Bank of the Internet!?
writes Kasuga Jingoro:
>
>> Plenty. Find me a workstation with the sort of uptime a 3090 running
>> MVS will give you.
>
>Since you asked... I don't know what the average uptime of a 3090 is,
>but from several years of experience as a Unix sysadmin, most of the
>Sun systems I've been involved with easily had uptimes ranging months
>at a time. Powering down a system for maintenance or adding equipment
>was more common than crashes. If you insist on promoting the reliability
>of the 3090, perhaps you'd be so kind as to cite some figures. I'd
>hazard to guess though that a 3090 could be sufficiently mismanaged to
>produce dismal uptimes as well as a workstation can.
I have (well, I manage) a sun 4/280 server, and it was once up for
180 days straight, but we restarted it just because it had been up
for what we thought was a really long time... In my experience, Big Blue
machines only talk to themselves correctly, and don't talk to much else.
Just my $0.02
-nate
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