> My NT4 system easily had an uptime of nearly 4 months before I quit
> going for uptime, it's mostly a waste of electricity to continue.  I
> don't know what the problem is with all your computers but it's not
> impossible to have an install last a long time.
>
> Jeff

The problem with some of the computers is, that people believe that they
are what the label says: 'general purpose computing machines', and in
their ignorance try to install and uninstall various pieces of software on
them. Apparently this is not an action that is a part of the 'general
purpose computing machine' model of a certain large OS firm, together with
some disregard for dangling callback pointers left by broken applications,
which invariably lead to hangs after a while. It is a part of the model
for most unices however. Which is why I am using *that*.

I am quite sure that a machine can be left running even W95 for 6 months
assuming only a small set of well-proven applications is used. Come to
think of it, even CP/M could do that ! ;-)

Peter

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