Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 08:14:29 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com> Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@transsys.com>, dennis@etinc.com (Dennis), "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) Message-ID: <12579.833037269@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 May 1996 10:07:55 CDT." <199605251507.KAA24561@sierra.zyzzyva.com>
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> I spent the past 4+ years supporting both HP workstations and a > "PC" product that I had designed from hand picked components, > deployed in the same application. In the past 2 years we had > far more (2:1) hardware failures in the HP equipment. I must say, your experience is not typical. I've also worked in environments with multiple HP (and DEC and Sun and IBM) workstations and hardly _ever_ seen a serious problem with one of them, save the occasional tape drive difficultly (oh, and if DEC's Tk50 wasn't already shipped broken from the factory you could quickly break it simply by sticking a tape in there :-). On the other hand, if experience with the various ISPs I work with is anything to go on, about 1 in every 5 PCs needs to be taken out back and shot once every couple of months, and this is with PCs built from _carefully selected_ parts. Fortunately, since these are PCs, I simply recommend having spares in stock and at least one box in a "hot swap" position. This costs a very minimal amount of money in comparison with the workstations and will get any reasonably forward-thinking ISP back on the air in an hour or less if they know what they're doing. Jordan
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