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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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On Sun, 3 May 2015 12:03:51 -0400, Peter Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
declaimed the following:

>I guess it depends on if there is a *requirement* to reboot the system 
>periodically (less than 8 months) in the maintenance plan. The matter 
>should be handled somewhere and it seems like it wasn't. In other words it 
>was just "luck" that these systems have been getting restarted frequently 
>enough.
>
	Also depends upon just what "reboot" means in this environment... If
this is some sort of elapsed time counter, then it is something saved in
flash memory and will survive a normal power-cycle operation.

	"Reboot" in this case may mean erasing and reloading the operational
flight program, databases, and other stuff in "permanent" memory.
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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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