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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 08:39:18 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: "Pedro Giffuni S." <giffunip@asme.org>
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Subject: Re: Operating system stability
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On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Pedro Giffuni S. wrote:

> probably Cray boxes) that will run fine until year 2000. Many times this
> "uptime" records are the result of the longetivity of their system
> maintainers :-).

It is hard to get long uptimes if your hardware has a short
life-cycle.  This is not an uncommon situation for a lot of
machines FreeBSD runs on.

-john