[CentOS] Wow! Double wow!
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Oct 30 08:21:22 UTC 2014
On 10/30/2014 1:07 AM, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> I used to work with IBM mainframes back when the dinosaurs were hatchlings.
> At one place I worked the machine was powered off on Friday at 5pm and
> powered up at 7am on Monday! Can you imagine that these days?
>
> We soon went to 24x7, but the reason was not because the users wanted it.
> It was because the engineers and systems programmers wanted time with no
> users.
main reason I remember for keeping stuff running was, it was more
reliable if the temperature was relatively constant... temperature
flucations led to more hardware failures than any other source input
variable.
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john r pierce 37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast
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