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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.wtn.mci.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 08:01:18 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 20 Message-ID: <325526BE.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <3246f8e0.1466924@news.telepac.pt> <324924E5.49B6@usoft.nl> <324AC49E.1CD3@pressconnect.com> <32507B89.1CFBAE39@freebsd.org> <5335ju$sv5@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: tundra@tundraware.com Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Actually, there is a machine/OS combination that comes very close to > the goal of 100% uptime and that is a Tandem running the Non-Stop Kernel. > To all intents and purposes, this machine will "never" go down because > it is fault tolerant in both hardware *and* software. [laughs hysterically for about 20 minutes, finally subsiding into a fit of coughing] Yes, I've some experience with those beasts, having used both Tandem Non-Stop and Stratus FX-1 equipment while working a fault-tolerant customer billing and tracking system for a cellular telephone switching network. I can't really speak for the hardware, but the software is not all that fault-tolerant, actually, and crashing both machines was a rather sadly easy task, even when we weren't really half trying. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project