Plenty. Find me a workstation with the sort of uptime a 3090 running MVS will give you.
Since you asked... I don't know what the average uptime of a 3090 is, but from several years of experience as a Unix sysadmin, most of the Sun systems I've been involved with easily had uptimes ranging months at a time. Powering down a system for maintenance or adding equipment was more common than crashes. If you insist on promoting the reliability of the 3090, perhaps you'd be so kind as to cite some figures. I'd hazard to guess though that a 3090 could be sufficiently mismanaged to produce dismal uptimes as well as a workstation can. In any case, your rather condescending attitude about workstations only seems to reinforce what I percieve as a condescending attitude towards the people inteding to start the digital credit union. And since some of the more high-profile cypherpunks are not just workstation users but inventors of the technology, I would think that your comments have probably similiarly affected other members of this group. Aside: welcome to Robert Woodhead who is in the best position to know what my username means. ---- jingoro@tcp.com -- Jim Lick -- jingoro@rahul.net -- jIngOrO@CaveMUCK ---- --:):-- perfect little dream the kind that hurts the most -- |\| | |/| --:(:-- --- CaveMUCK is back! --- Telnet to cave.tcp.com (128.95.10.106) port 2283 --- -- Finger me for fun, excitement or for my PGP Public Key Encryption Block --