Re: a salute to stability

CobraBoy! (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:29:04 -0700


Someone named Joseph R. Kiniry around 5:13 PM -0700 on 7/12/97, cleverly
crafted this:

> forkers,
>
> mourning the fact that we can't somehow switch the machine over to a
> battery pack for twelve hours...
>

> >hebe(berna)% uptime
> > 7:22am up 675 days, 9:10, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> >Yup, the last time it was rebooted was right after the last time power
> >was out in the building, Labor Day weekend of 1995. Now *that's*
> >stable. It probably hasn't hurt that I don't stress the machine too
> >much -- a lot of vi and a little latex, mostly -- and of course there
> >haven't been any hardware upgrades or anything, but still, 675 days
> >without a reboot must say something about system stability.

what machine/os is it?

-T

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