[Info-vax] MIcrovax 3100-98

[Alexander Schreiber]

Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2019 10:45 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>
>> They all laughed and one of them stated he could not remember when they had
>> a VAX HW problem.
>>
>> Good testament to the VAX HW, but not so good for new sales.
>
> And doesn't that sort of depend on whether you're the vendor, or, a 
> customer?
>
> Then there was the AlphaStation 200 power supplies.  Dropped like flies.
>
> Getting 3 years out of today's PCs is very good luck.  And that's with 
> HW in general being more robust.

I beg to differ. My current home "server" got its last major update, a new
(faster) AMD CPU 9 years ago. Has been working fine since. The only h/w
changes since then was a harddisk upgrade for capacity reasons. And that
is what is basically workstation grade h/w, not a dedicate server machine.

Not buying the cheapest crap does help with that, I admit.

My home workstation also got a new mainboard, cpu, memory and an SSD several
years ago - not because the old kit failed, but because noticeable performance
gains were available with newer hardware. Things like memory 8 -> 16 GB, a
hybrid RAID1 (spinning rust + ssd) for the root fs and and such.

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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