Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!jfh
From: jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: All this Microport Flaming: A solid Vote for XENIX
Summary: running strong millions of page faults later ...
Keywords: Microport, "Real Unix", Dreams, Broken promises, I Love XENIX
Message-ID: <2398@killer.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 23:17:23 GMT
References: <4610@well.UUCP> <394@ddsw1.UUCP> <255@spl1.UUCP>
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <255@spl1.UUCP>, raj@spl1.UUCP (Robert Alan Johnson) writes:
> Reading all this agonizing about Microport, I just want to add a solid 
> positive vote for SCO and XENIX.  Rather than talk about
> features, I include below an exerpt from a "last" command:
> 
> reboot   system boot  Nov  9 11:32 - present (25+ 7:18)	[time change 56]
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ||||||                                        ||||||||
> 
> For those of you not familiar with this output, it says that our machine has
> been up for the last 25 days, working hard, collecting dust!
> 
> Bob Johnson
> The Software Public Library
> ...ihnp4!laidbak!spl1

Let me cast my vote.  Once you get their attention, they do actually
respond ;-).  My system faults mega-pages a day, and executes kilo-commands,
far from collecting dust (see why a page fault bug might urk me?).

I now have 2.2.1j running, and other than shutting it down to play
flight simulator, it works just fine.

SCO still needs to work on the simple questions that reading a manual
would cure (so why don't the technical support people at SCO read the
manuals? - I have a great example of this, but then I've relayed it
to SCO already)

Now only time will tell if my box can run for 25+ days.  Aside note,
the longest I've kept a Unix System running on one boot was about
50 days.  Anyone got any long stories?

- John.
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