[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/18/2011 12:30 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2011-05-18 08.15, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You never install any security updates? :-)
>
> Johnny
>

I didn't say never!  Try seldom.  The worst problems with XP were fixed 
long ago.  The system is on a home network with a router that will not 
allow incoming connections that are not responses to outgoing requests.

It's not perfect security but it's "good enough".