RE: AS/400 - iSeries uptime statistics

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Walden 
> H. Leverich
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 2:33 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: AS/400 - iSeries uptime statistics
> 
> 
> >But as with the iSeries you get what you pay for...
> 
> Yup. I've never argued that Windows on a $1,000 PC from dell 
> is a stable
> operating system.
> 
> >But then it's not really Windows, its Stratus' "Lockstep" Hardware, 
> >"Failsafe" software and "ActiveService" architecture. 
> 
> And it's not "really" OS/400, it's the service processors, IOPs/IOAs,
> machine interface, etc.
> 
> -Walden
> 

Yes it is really OS/400.  Granted the hardware contributes.  But unlike the 
Stratus machines, no other software is required in order to give the 
OS/hardware combination high uptime.

Windows by itself on any single machine, even Stratus hardware, isn't going to 
do it.

Charles