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From: mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Announcing the release of NetBSD/Alpha
Date: 23 Feb 1995 23:06:34 GMT
Organization: Goofs R Us
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Message-ID: <3ij4dq$ibe@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
References: <3idg8m$kbv@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> <3iil44$rk9@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <3ij3of$ccf@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <3ij3of$ccf@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <3iil44$rk9@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
> <mathog@seqvax.bio.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>> I've seen uptimes of more than a week,
>>Exactly.
>>Drop us another note when it runs for a year without crashing.
>Geeze! I can only hope this man was speaking in jest. What Chris
>and the NetBSD Project have accomplished here is of great significance,
Definite of great significance, but it really doesn't sound like
NetBSD/Alpha (which, as the original replier pointed out, should be alpha
release of NetBSD/AXP) is "not just a kernel hacker's toy."
>and if they've got uptimes of a week then they've already surpassed
>the reliability of OSF/1 on the same hardware, at least in my
>direct experience! (And this was at DEC!).
Taking a poll of four DEC alphas that get a lot of daily user in the CS
lab here:
mmead@hq % rsh boxer.cs '(uname -a ; uptime)'
OSF1 boxer.cs.vt.edu V3.0 347 alpha
18:02 up 30 days, 1:17, 0 users, load average: 0.20, 0.03, 0.02
mmead@hq % rsh doberman.cs '(uname -a ; uptime)'
OSF1 doberman.cs.vt.edu V3.0 347 alpha
18:02 up 14 days, 11:41, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
mmead@hq % rsh malamute.cs '(uname -a ; uptime)'
OSF1 malamute.cs.vt.edu V3.0 347 alpha
18:03 up 15 days, 19:26, 5 users, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.05
mmead@hq % rsh rottweiler.cs '(uname -a ; uptime)'
OSF1 rottweiler.cs.vt.edu V3.0 347 alpha
18:03 up 1 day, 11:50, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
:-)
>I guess it just goes to show that you can never please everybody!
This, however, is true :-)
-matt
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