I have noticed since I removed the 512K cache DIMM (which was
misbehaving with my 604e upgrade card) and IE 5 (which caused the
whole system to become unstable when it crashed) from my PowerMac
7500 that I have not had to reboot except when adding new hardware.
I am consistently and concurrently running:
*OS 8.6
*AIM
*Eudora 5.1
*Fetch
*iTunes 1.1 for OS 8
*FileMaker Pro 3
*MacSSH
*Excel 98
*Word 98
*Netscape 6.2
*QuickTime Player 5 Pro
*SETI@Home (Team MacObserver of course!)
*Lots of finder enhancements like A-dock, etc.
I am absolutely floored by this kind of stability! Until recently I
had only used Systems 6, 7 and 9 extensively, since the Mac labs I
used to administer skipped right from 7.6.1 to 9.0. This is
definitely a level of stability I have never experienced except on my
Linux/BSD boxes (my personal record is an old Sparcstation IPX
running S/Linux with an uptime of a little over 2.5 years!!!
Unfortunately, after I graduated, there were legal issues with me
using a University Internet connection to host my personal web pages
and SQL databases, so I had to unplug her and taker her home.).
Anyway, this got me wondering... is there a simple way of telling
what the "uptime" is on my Mac OS system, or a utility I can install
that will track uptime for me? It seems I have now been running
stable longer than my memory permits me to recall, and I would like
to start keeping track for geek's sake.
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--Chris
PM 7500/604e 200Mhz
4 gig SCSI
256 megs
OS 8.6
(This machine rocks!)
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