On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> > On 2-Feb-10, at 1:54 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > > 100% uptime for 20 years? >> >> So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the >> difference? >> > > > The short answer is that uptimes like that are VMS *cluster* uptimes. > Individual hosts don't necessarily have that uptime, but the cluster > availability is maintained for extremely long periods. > > You can probably find more discussion of this in comp.os.vms. And the 15MB/sec of I/O throughput on that state-of-the-art cluster is something to write home about? ;) Seriously, as someone alluded to earlier, we're not comparing apples to applies. And a 9000 series VAX Cluster was one of the earlier multi-user systems I worked on for reference ;) Making that kind of stuff work with modern expectations and tolerances is a whole new kettle of fish... -marc
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