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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!kdenning
- From: kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger)
- Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
- Message-ID: <BuKMtu.M36@portal.hq.videocart.com>
- Summary: Stability
- Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
- Organization: VideOcart Inc.
- References: <BuD2E7.E96@gator.rn.com> <2AB29054.4DFF@telly.on.ca> <1992Sep13.150336.10748@unixland.natick.ma.us>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:58:42 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Sep13.150336.10748@unixland.natick.ma.us> bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
- >evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- >
- >>An ESIX unlimited user licence with development system, sells for under
- >>$650US. Add XFree86 and you've got a fairly complete system, still $650,
- >
- >At this price, it is about 1/2 the price of DELL! It's getting to the point
- >where it is hard to even compare DELL and ESIX! Aside from getting a bunch
- >of FREE Public Domain tools (and Merge), I'm not sure I see how DELL could
- >be worth DOUBLE the price. Is it really? Is it *that* much more stable
- >than ESIX? (Stability is one of my key concerns, not lots of stuff I can
- >get nearly for free anyway).
-
- Well, since I loaded Issue 2.2 at my home site the system has been running
- non-stop. No resets, reboots, reloads or anything else. Zero. Nada. Not
- a single operational problem. I run the entire gamut, including Cnews and
- friends, Ethernet services (I have a few DOS PCs which NFS mount things) and
- work the system VERY hard. I'm known to be one of those types of people who
- find OS bugs that others miss, much to the chagrin of the vendors ;-).
-
- No other OS I have ever run on this hardware has managed to last 30 days
- without some kind of incident. That includes ISC 2.x, SCO Xenix and Dell's
- earlier releases. I have that on this load so far. Modulo power
- interruptions, I expect literally months before the first reload at
- this point.
-
- As a side note, many other sites, including some commercial ones I am aware
- of, run ISC 2.2 without incident for months at a time. I was never able to
- get more than about 14-21 days off a boot before things would get sufficiently
- strange that either the machine would crash or I'd willingly reboot it.
-
- I'll pay more for >working< software every time. Dell 2.2 is a workhorse, a
- good network neighbor and as far as I can tell, solid enough that I'd have
- no qualms about using it for commercial data processing.
-
- This is the first X86 release I've seen that I can say that about.
-
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