Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David L. Mills wrote: > > Bitsy.mit.edu is alive, but not running NTP for whatever reason. > > > > Bitsy.udel.edu was among the first public timetellers in the > > world, including clepsydra.decwrl.com and fuzzball dcn1.arpa > > (128.4.1.1). They first chimed circa 1984. Of the three, only > > 128.4.1.1 has public chime, but now a Pentium called > > rackety.udel.edu.
> Ten years is about three lifetimes in computer years. You can keep > an old box running for longer but many people don't run them even > that long! > Sooner or later you get to the point where the poor old thing can't > run something you want to run; the applications you need, need more > RAM than the box will hold or need more CPU cycles than the box can > do. Then it's a paper weight or a door stop! > Bitsy may have found a place in the Computer History Museum. Or > maybe a place in a dumpster. Specifics of systems named bitsy or with an IP of 128.4.1.1 asside, since a system's hostname and IP can be passed-on from one generation of hardware to another, that a name/IP has been active for N units of time cannot really be used as an accurate estimate of the age of the hardware behind it :) I've had several systems over a number of years called tardy.cup.hp.com... rick jones -- portable adj, code that compiles under more than one compiler these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
