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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
Date: 6 Dec 1994 22:52:29 +0100
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no (Steinar Haug) writes:

>I'd rather suggest that they consider installing some patches for 4.1.3.
>Our general impression here is that 4.1.3 (suitably patched) is still
>much more stable than 2.3 (suitably patched). Uptime of 59 days is *not*
>particularly impressive - we have many 4.1.3 systems which have been up
>much longer than that.

(Is this going to be another my uptime is bigger than yours battle?).

We have average uptimes > 100 days.  (Averaged over > 100 machines)
Some machines stay up for 450+ days.

Casper