[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/18/2011 10:44 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<GowAp.961$t41.959 at newsfe25.ams2>, ChrisQ<meru at devnull.com>  writes:
>>
>> Irrespective of os, Vms, Tru64, Linux or even windows xp, modern systems
>> just keep going until you need to change something, or power fail...
>
>     Right, my XP system hasn't crashed since, um, a few days ago.
>
>     In fact, it's gotten so it only completes a successful shutdown
>     50% of the time.  The other 50% it insists on hanging instead.
>

I've been running Windows XP SP3 for several years now.  It's stable as 
a table!  About the only time I reboot is following a power outrage long 
enough to run down my UPS.

Windows has come a LONG way!!!  I can recall, dimly, Windows 2 point 
something.  You were lucky to get twenty or thirty minutes between reboots.