I've had exactly the opposite experience. 10 years of solid on time. Never turned the machine off. :-)
Dave On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 14:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 24 June 2013 13:59:47 Stuart Stevenson did opine: > > > wonders never cease > > I just saw a link for a PDP-11 assembly programmer for a job to last > > until 2050 > > seems as if anything is possible > > Even including that insanity, because based on my experience with a > PDP-11/723, that would have to be considered insanity. That thing was a > crashomatic, several times an hour at the end, and since it took something > like 15 minutes to boot because compiling the program it ran was part of > the boot sequence, the uptime was less than 50% of the time. DEC replaced > everything in that machine but the frame rail with the serial number > riveted to it and every time they touched it, they made it worse. > > My problems with that single example caused the CBS tv network to replace > every machine at every CBS affiliate with industrial IBM's & new software, > on their nickel. That thing probably cost us $100k or more in lost > commercial revenue because it had silently crashed, and a channel change > wasn't done on time, so we were airing a dog food commercial we didn't get > paid for in place of the toothpaste commercial we would have been paid for > had the channel or bird switch been done on time. > > No, I do not remember the PDP-11 days fondly. :( > > Cheers, Gene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
