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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:28:42 +0100
From:      Mark Huizer <xaa@stack.nl>
To:        Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uptime
Message-ID:  <19970303002842.15745@xaa.stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970302125715.peter@grendel.>; from Peter Korsten on Sun, Mar 02, 1997 at 12:57:15PM %2B0100
References:  <199702271713.JAA23356@ref.tfs.com> <Mutt.19970302125715.peter@grendel.>

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On Sun, Mar 02, 1997 at 12:57:15PM +0100, Peter Korsten wrote:
> Julian Elischer shared with us:
> > 
> > unfortunatly not actually FreeBSD, but a BSD43/MACH combination system
> > (but running a lot of the same code)
> > 
> >  10:36am  up 500 days, 13:08,  2 users,  load average: 0.20, 0.03, 0.02
> 
> The computerclub of the university in Eindhoven had a SysV release 2
> machine that was up for over 512 days. At one time, uptime had to be
> patched because it used a too small datatype for the number of days.
> Then they had to move, the machine had to go down, and when switched
> on, one disk didn't work anymore.
> 
> Just to think that I made a good start porting tcsh.
> 
Good thing... what machine was that? I remember gem and its 400 days of
uptime :-)

Mark
(eeh... also from that computerclub :-)



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