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Computer Operating System Upgrades
By Paul Anderson

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Michael Concordia wrote:

> I was content
> with it and was still able to web surf on my old machine (a 166 MHz,
> 128 MB RAM), but one day I ran into a problem (a virus, perhaps) and
> I could not get support from Microsoft, even if I was willing to pay
> for it.
>

I'm a pretty dedicated Linux user, and we rarely have problems with
backwards compatibility.  Thanks to the fact that Linux is POSIX
compliant these days, so long as you have the source code, it can run
software as much as 30 years old.   BTW, with a UPS, you generally
expect continuous uptimes with Linux in the realm of 60-80 days.  With
a good admin, I've known machines that have run continuously for years.

Paul Anderson
geeky1!paul   [ Humorous UUCP email address...  Paul, does it really work ?

 [ My BSDI system - Pentium running BSD/OS, BSDI's commercial version
 [ of BSD (a Posix compliant OS derived from the work done at UC Berkeley)
 [ has stayed up over 180 days more than one time.  Many of our
 [ BSD systems at work have been up over 200 days.  I must observe
 [ that the NT systems at work that run a single application
 [ seem to be pretty stable.  The ones that are accessible to users
 [ running the applications of their choice are less stable.  Most
 [ of the Unix clones just keep going after running an errant
 [ application or "too many at once".  Sigh...    Jody


(Message sent Wed 29 May 2002, 21:37:00 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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