At 01:12 PM 3/26/2010, you wrote: >Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > > We had a VAX 600 running here at the Lab that resided on it's own > > little network, and it had an uptime of well over 10 years... > > >I got roughly 22 years (1986 - 2008) out of mine. If I put a new hard >drive in it, and could figure out a usable media to reload the OS from, >it would still work. It was getting a bit crotchety in its old age, >needed to reseat the cards in the backplane every 6 months or so. But, >really, a 1 MIPS CPU today is glacially slow. I had one app left on it, >which monitored a bunch of temperature, etc. sensors around the house, >logged the data and put a display on some LCD displays around the >house. I finally moved that app onto my Linux server machine, so there >was no further use for the system. I did have some cool software (for >the time) on it which I've never ported, such as a graphics library >ported over from NASA. > >Jon
That machine lasted at the Lab for close to 20 years if I remember right. What I meant above was that it hadn't been rebooted in over 10 years... ;-) Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
