Re: subject: iSeries Legends

Hi Scott,

I thought we were talking about hardware reliability, not OS.  I remember a
friend 30 years ago designing & building his own CPU (4-bit machine, the
only i/o was LED's and toggle switches) and the chip he was using for a CPU
would overheat and start adding 2 + 2 and getting 5 until he'd squirt some
coolant on it after which it would start working correctly.  He also
mentioned having problems with noise, and considered finding the right place
to put a capacitor to get rid of it an educated guessing game.

One customer of mine with an S/38 had some CPU fans fail, bringing down the
machine.  The interesting thing was the message -- something about "thermal
regulation device"; they were trying to figure out what it meant when the
machine shutdown.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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From: "Scott Klement"

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Don wrote:
> >
> > Anyone heard of a Windows or unix box running for that long? :)
> >
>
> Windows, no.   Unix, yes.
>
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>
> My iSeries does not even come close to this level of reliability.  We've
> only had this system for 2 years, and it's already had instability due to
> software bugs (fixed by PTF, but that required a re-IPL), a drive
> failure, and corrupt disk objects that meant the system had to be taken
> down to run RCLSTG.
>
> I think the reason people are impressed by the iSeries reliability is
> because Windows has made us think that an operating system that runs
> normally without crashing is some sort of miracle.    It's not.   It's
> what you should expect.