Re: uptime

[Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@home.com>]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:

> > > $ uptime
> > >  12:44am  up 365 days,  1:31,  2 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01
> > > 
> > > break out the root beer!
> > 
> > Congrats! I think I'll show this to a few Windows users. 

In the mid-80's we ran IBM 3090 mainframes. Big Iron. One day the machine
crashed Big Time. It turned out that the uptime counter overflowed after
90 days. We were the first ever to run (probably MVS/XA at the time) for
90 days without an IPL (re-boot).

...RickM...