writes Kasuga Jingoro:
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.
I have (well, I manage) a sun 4/280 server, and it was once up for 180 days straight, but we restarted it just because it had been up for what we thought was a really long time... In my experience, Big Blue machines only talk to themselves correctly, and don't talk to much else. Just my $0.02 -nate -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Nate Sammons email: nate@VIS.ColoState.Edu | Colorado State University Computer Visualization Laboratory | Finger nate@monet.VIS.ColoState.Edu for my PGP key | #include <std.disclaimer> | Title 18 USC 2511 and 18 USC 2703 Protected --> Monitoring Forbidden +--------+ Always remember "Brazil"