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Re: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)



On Thu, 17 May 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:


Just consider the implications of sending such a machine on a long term
mission into space, on an unmanned shuttle.


--Ariel
> 
> I would be very disappointed if the max uptime is measured in years and this
> state of affairs is ignored by the kernel developers. I hope that this would
> become at least tenths of years on 64 bits architectures, even if there will
> be no deliberate attempt to fix it.
> IMHO this limitation is severe because it should have strong impact on
> machines that are located in remote areas, critical missions machines,
> embedded systems and consumer electronics.
> In short, I want to determine the machine behavior and not the other way
> around.
> 
> --
> 	
> 	Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
> 
> Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me?
> Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
>                                         (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)
> 
> 
> 

--
Ariel Biener
e-mail: ariel@post.tau.ac.il
PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html


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