> It seems that 70% of my NON-MS apps will crash or fault out and 30% of my MS
> apps will falut or OE out on me. If MicroSloth wants work domination, they
...
> Maybe I will get an iMac sooner than I though, at least they don't %#$^#^ me
> off like this blasted windows is lately. I set it up and tell it to keep
> the settings and the first thing it does when I reboot is go back to what IT
> wants.
I know the feeling...
One answer is Linux. The other answer is DOS. (CP/M being a bit
hard to find now.)
Remember how stable DOS was? I would leave a DOS up for days, even
weeks, just watching my fax line with a Frecom fax card.
I would leave CP/M up for months on some machines, mostly running
Word Star 3.5. Word Star was pretty good too, at least CP/M's 3.5 and
DOS's 4 was. Mail Merge wasn't quite Perl, but I ran a lot of stuff on it,
including an accounting system. (Yes, written in Word Star mail merge!) WS
5 couldn't do math, so I stuck with 4.
Polly: (Pentium 200, Linux)
1:43am up 15 days, 21:17, 11 users,
(Had to add a hard drive, so had to power down. Didn't crash when I
filled up /tmp and /home! But I really play with her hardware too much.
Ran about a month or so before that, when I rebooted the wrong machine.)
Indy: (SGI Indy, Irix)
1:38am up 42 days, 10:03, 3 users,
(Had to borrow a cable for the SUN, so had to power it down. She often
runs for 3 - 6 months before I reboot. I once ran into an SGI machine
that hadn't been rebooted for over a year and a half under heavy load. I'd
run her a year and a half once too, till we had a half hour blackout; but
I don't call my load heavy.)
Sun: 11 days, (Tripped the circuit breaker to the bedrooms and bath.)
Meg: (P166) About a week and a half running DOS. Just powered down
tonight to move the old DOS drives to an old 486 machine I am trying to
get up; but the 486 bios can't auto-detect the drive configurations. I
have some dBase databases on them.
DOS is a nice and stable, if somewhat limited, operating system; but
I really want to get Meg back on Linux and all networked in again. I
suppose I will end up mounting the drives under Linux as DOS drives, and
use the data that way. I've got a perl program that serves up the
database on a web page faster than dBase can re-paint the display on the
same hardware. It's just that I haven't gotten my dBase compatible
telemarketing phone dialer working under Linux yet, and a bunch of other
telemarketing stuff.
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