Duane Percox write:
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> 3. HP is working very hard to get MPE reliability/stablity into the
HP-UX
>    and NT platforms. Most likely because they are not starting from
>    scratch (see #2).
>
Brief status report on laudable goal (can't speak to NT):
5 year old hp3000/967 MPE/iX 5.0 (kept up to date on powerpatches): two
system aborts in the 5 years, no other major problems, with system under
considerable weekday load.

1 year old hp9000/k400 HPUX 10.10 (kept recently patched): 1 system stop
(dead console, dead system, etc.), 1 unusable system slowdown, multiple
general system slowdowns (related to networking, if I'm not mistaken), but
no panics, with system generally under light load.

YMMV
Richard Gambrell
Information Technology Center, Xavier University of Louisiana