Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:2990 comp.unix.microport:1298 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Xenix reliability (Was: Re: Bell Tech 386 SysVr3) Message-ID: <1257@ficc.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 88 13:40:55 GMT References: <25145@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <465@sp7040.UUCP> <11643@steinmetz.ge.com> <1988Aug8.201739.4868@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Organization: SCADA Lines: 18 In article ... woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) writes about how HP systems are more reliable than UNIX: Some guy at rpp386 said: > >thirty one days looks like reliable to me. > Not to me. Besides, how is that system used? ... > It didn't do a lot of database stuff, > it didn't use IPC intensly, it didn't do high-speed communications... Well, I dare say that the HP systems that you're comparing UNIX to are doing a heavy-duty job mix of accounting and word-processing software: the sorts of things that you're denigrating rpp386 for. -- Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation, sugar!ficc!peter. "You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?" "Well, I couldn't afford another deLorean." "But how do you ever get it up to 88 miles per hour????"