I need to concur somewhat... A number of our IVR and telephony systems ran for years, and I do mean years, on 286 platforms. Of course it was under OS/2 1.x, but.... Our in-house-written PBX, Elvira, has been running on NT 4.0 since 4.0 was released. The only time it's down is for power outages, equipment moves, OS updates, and, sad to say, bugs in our own software.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Another - Another One Bites the Dust David Andrews wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 20:33 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > >>Guess what? While we may not like it, Sun, HP etc. are reliable >>enough for most things. There are people in the Unix/Linux world who >>brag about the number of months between reboots. > > > A point well worth repeating. A few years ago I had a brochure > website hosted on a HP Netserver running under FreeBSD. It had two > years of consecutive uptime before we lost power in a planned outage. > (My site ~almost~ made Netcraft's list of longest-running sites on the > 'net. At the time #100 had 800 or so days of uptime.) Uptime depends on many factors, not only hardware platform or operating system. I know of several PC machines which were dedicated to specific tasks: modem transmission, telex transmission, etc. These machines worked under MS DOS, qutie archaic version, because of no upgrades. NEVER required reboot or application restart. Equipment was XT, AT, 386, "clones" from Taiwan R.O.C. (I mean no famous brands like Compaq, Dell or other). -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
