Gavin Scott wrote:
>
> Larry writes:
> > You do not have to watch a server.  In the early days of the 3000 MPE/V
> > system there was a counter where you had to reboot the system
> > every n days.
> > I think this was less than a month but am not sure.
>
> I believe it was 2^31ms, or slightly more than 24 days, i.e. exactly half of
> the Microsoft limit.  So at least Windows knows how to do unsigned math
> which the 3000 apparently didn't :-)

Let me see what your saying.  20 years difference (isn't that about
right?) to learn one more power of 2 in counting?  Yep, guess that's
why it's called software engineering.:-)

But seriously, the real discovery of those 20 years is that one can
get rich by delivering sloppy code while following the "right"
business practices and delivering enough apparent productivity boost
while the machine stays up.

>
> G.

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