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January 1996, Week 2

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Michael Casteel <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael Casteel <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:59:29 -0800
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At 3:59 PM 1/12/96, Bruce Toback wrote:
> The news in this post is that there are apparently now _two_ operating
> systems for Intel platforms that exhibit something like commercial-grade
> reliability, which is two more than there were a year ago. 50 or 60 days
> between reboots is fairly decent.
 
_Three_?
 
We've been running UnixWare on some Intel boxes for the past year or two,
and there have been blessed periods of long uptime. For some time, an
Intel/UnixWare box was the fastest NFS server we had. So, there was _one_
already a year ago.
 
The hardware seems to have given more trouble than the software, at that.
 
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Mike Casteel                      Unison Software, Inc.
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