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The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.lang.java.advocacy, Wesley Groleau
> <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
>  wrote
> on Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:40:55 -0500
> <wBSdnTfmO5TK0zGjXTWcog@gbronline.com>:
> 
>>Option three.  Have a redundant system, hoping that
>>only one will crash at a time.  Then network them
>>all together, so that the one that crashes will
>>take out the rest of them.  :-)
> 
> I'll admit I wonder about this option, but, .....
> 
> I think Windows can manage that, even if it crashes 3-4
> times every 8-hour day: assuming a full reboot takes 2

Even Windows 95/98 wasn't that bad on average (people
like me who make their machines work hard would probably
get crashes more than once a day).  But Windows NT/2000
are far more reliable.  HOWEVER, my comment was an allusion
to an actual event.  Someone will probably post a URI, but
here's the executive summary:  A program on a Windows NT
machine did a divide by zero.  The exception was propagated
to all other machines on the Windows LAN, and they all crashed.
Unfortunately, one of the undesirable results of this was
that the ship that was entrusted to these machines had to
be towed back to port.