> On Feb 24, 2021, at 7:01 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> On 2/24/21 3:11 PM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
>> 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
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
