From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jan 4 08:11:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00685 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:11:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00676 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:11:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16063; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:11:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3690E81D.34FDF480@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 09:11:09 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert S. Sciuk" CC: Paolo Di Francesco , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Robert S. Sciuk" wrote: > > BTW: I've seen Intel h/w run in excess of 200 days, down only for power > outages, but they were either running Unix or NetWare. I've never seen a > Gates supplied virus come even close to that level of stability. I guess you haven't been around for the occasional "uptime wars" in FreeBSD-chat, huh? Some of the uptimes reported there are pretty remarkable, I've seen a few above 400 days. No, the crashing generally isn't a hardware problem. ;^) I have to call GSTek and order some IPXs today. Then I have to go find some disk drives for them. This should be fun... -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message