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

[Alan Perry via cctalk]

> On Oct 23, 2018, at 8:48 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> I really should get around to putting together a UPS -
>> nothing here has been up more than nine hours, . . .
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 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.
> 

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