On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:55, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Monday, 02/03/2003 at 09:30 CST, "Nix, Robert P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Because the quality of the other operating systems doesn't allow them to > have > > the higher standard. > > I think that's an unfair over-generalization. Lots of Unix and Linux > systems have high uptimes. I do think that the interface design between > the machine, the operating system, and the application is cleaner on > mainframes, as are the hardware (esp. adapter) state changes. I think
I'm dubious about some of that too. The IBM mainframe hardware has some truely deranged interfaces that are products of its age. Its certainly the case that my raid cards have cleaner interfaces than DASD seems to! PC systems can also (if you pick good hardware, environment and UPS etc) deliver very good uptimes: 11:41am up 469 days, 12:24, 73 users, load average: 1.35, 1.14, 1.15
