[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[MG]

On 21-5-2011 17:25, seasoned_geek wrote:
> Over the past five years I have seen numerous PCs, from many vendors,
> fail to boot if the machine had been left turned on for two years or
> more.  By "turned on" I mean never powered down, despite how many
> times one had to ALT-CTRL-DEL XP back to life.  Because neither the
> motherboard nor the CPU are replaced in "refurbished" desktops, I have
> long since quit recommending those machines to individuals looking to
> save money on a name brand, telling them instead to buy a brand new
> generic and load their favorite Linux distro.  For around $200 they
> get a kick bootie PC with a longer lifespan than the refurbished.

Ctrl-Alt-Delete, the gospel of PC.

Seeing "refurbished" and "PC" in the same sentence struck me as some-
what peculiar.  Especially for such discardable, throw-away, type of
systems as PCs are.

I used to run an x86-64 (AMD64) dual-core Linux 'home server' several
years ago.  Besides not being able to properly use things like a serial
console (BIOS and other quirks), the thing would totally budget and not
always boot up properly.  It was almost a bet, whether it'd start up
normally after a reboot.  It was very sporadic.

My current 'home server' is a VMS cluster consisting of rx2600s and
rx2620s with those "terrible" Itanium processors!  I think I like
"terrible", especially when it runs VMS so nicely.

  - MG