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Date:      Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:53:30 -0700
From:      "George W. Dinolt" <gdinolt@pacbell.net>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au, grog@FreeBSD.org, kris@obsecurity.org, kris@FreeBSD.org, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Longest uptime?
Message-ID:  <3CCB8E5A.9020706@pacbell.net>
References:  <20020428100942.Z93150@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200204280520.PAA15363@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> <20020427.232123.117838711.imp@village.org>

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M. Warner Losh wrote:

>In message: <200204280520.PAA15363@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
>            Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> writes:
>: In some email I received from Greg 'groggy' Lehey, sie wrote:
>: > On Saturday, 27 April 2002 at 13:51:05 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>: > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:59:31AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>: > >> phk> Sorry for breaking the timekeeping.  It was a .rej I hadn't noticed
>: > >> phk> which killed it.
>: > >> kris> gohan10# uptime
>: > >> kris>  2:57AM  up 8909 days, 11:21, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>: > >>
>: > >> Wooo Hoo!  A new record :-)
>: > >
>: > > Amusingly, that uptime pre-dates UNIX by a couple of years.
>: > 
>: > Nope, it's about the time of the Seventh Edition.
>: 
>: I wonder if you could even begin to count the number of bugs present or
>: how many unpatched security holes exist...
>
>Lots, but since Seventh Edition didn't have TCP/IP it would actually
>be a fairly safe system :-)
>
>Warner
>
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Actually that may not be quite correct. In 1982, I ran an Onyx (Z8001/1 
Meg Memory/40 Meg Disk/4 "terminal" users) box running Unix V7 that had 
a "3rd party" IP/TCP networking stack. It was on the ARPANET. I am not 
sure of my history now, but I think in 1978 you were probably running 
 ATT Unix V6. If memory serves, the University of Illinois developed an 
IP/NCP stack for that system. (NCP was the predecessor to TCP). As to 
the reliability of the system, the OS was probably more robust than the 
hardware.

George Dinolt



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