[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <GowAp.961$t41.959 at newsfe25.ams2>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com>
writes: 

> > Before someone complains, JF, it was a joke; meant to show that anyone
> > can make any claim of uptime they want.  FreeBSD 6.1 was released in
> > 2003.  4914 days of uptime is 13 years.  
> 
> I did notice that :-). In fact, modern hardware is very reliable and
> the same quality parts are used by everyone. The days of dec sampling
> every batch of chips that came into the building are long gone. Same for
> board burn in, which was quite common in the old days to weed out chip
> "infant mortality" failures.
> 
> Irrespective of os, Vms, Tru64, Linux or even windows xp, modern systems
> just keep going until you need to change something, or power fail...

For those who understand German, there was a bit of (unintentional?) 
humour in C't magazine a few years back:

   [...] ein gut konfigurierter Windows-Rechner, an dem niemand
   herumspielt, läuft auch über mehrere Tage stabil. 
                                                   (c't 14/2004, S. 147)