Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Unix Bugs vs. VMS bugs Message-ID: <157@psivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 20:18:44 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.157 Posted: Mon Nov 26 20:18:44 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:43:51 EST References: <5870@brl-tgr.ARPA> <4659@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 17 Summary: In article <4659@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: > >Sounds like somebody -- either you or someone like Berkeley -- has been >doing too much meddling with your UNIX. Else why would it be down so much? >We run real UNIX (i.e., V7), and the number of times we've crashed in the >last year can be counted on one's fingers. And most of the times we *do* >crash, it's because of hardware hiccups. >-- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry I must agree in principle -- only it wasn't Berkeley, we are running BSD 4.1 and have only had *one* crash that was *not* due to hardware in over a year, and that was when someone tried to nroff the entire on-line manual to the line printer at one time!! Our last down time was Preventative Maintenance and installation of new hardware, almost a week ago.