Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:22:10 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FREEBSD ON TELEVISION PROGRAM Message-ID: <19970615162210.HT14588@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970613165128.8239B-100000@CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au>; from Iain Templeton on Jun 13, 1997 16:54:10 %2B1000 References: <199706130309.XAA09371@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970613165128.8239B-100000@CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au>
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As Iain Templeton wrote: > I was quite impressed by the time it took the SGI to reboot and be ready > after the power came back on. Must've been a few seconds (unless I got a > weird version of the telly the other week). They could boot almost as fast as they could crash. :-} The shortest uptime for an Indy i've seen didn't last to launch the xdm login window... And, you could totally damage it by pulling the power plug. The old EFS (which was current by the time of Jurassic Park) was the most fragile Unix filesystem i've ever seen, even more fragile than the old S51K of SVR3.2. I've seen an Indy throwing away its Xserver after a crash... (and the Xserver surely never was written to, so one would wonder why it was affected at all). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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