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From: berna@cs.caltech.edu (Berna L Massingill)
Subject: Re: Which language pays most 17457 -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/01/03
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Date: 1998-01-03T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <68e0un$1sf$1@nntp.msstate.edu>,
Billy Chambless <billy@cast.msstate.edu> wrote:
>In article <34AA80B3.E651528D@its.cl>, Guillermo Schwarz <gschwarz@its.cl> writes:
>
>|> .... [ snip ] ....
>|> UNIX didn't stay up more than 3 days until LINUX was born.
>
>Hmmm....maybe you've had bad luck with Unix. This certainly doesn't 
>fit with my own experiences with various Unixes, including SunOS,
>AIX, SCO, Irix, and errr... whatever TI called their Unix that they put
>on their long-forgotten workstations.
>
>|> I've seen linuxes uptime as long as 1 year.
>
>The only time we usually reboot any of our 20 or so Unix machines is for
>power outages or hardware upgrades.
>
> .... [ snip ] ....

That's my experience too.  The workstation that used to sit on my
desk (a Sun something running SunOS) was up for a fairly amazing
total of 676 days -- between an unscheduled power outage late in 1995
and a scheduled outage last summer.  Now *that*'s stable.

-- blm