[net.unix-wizards] A record uptime for a VAX?

jph@whuxlb.UUCP (06/28/83)

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whuxlb!jph    Jun 28 16:24:00 1983

In the dark past (1977), I was running an 11/45 using
UNIX 0.00 (or there abouts) and it was used to
development with typically 5-7 users on-line almost all
day. We moved from North Carolina to New Jersey and at
the time I turned the machine off for the last time, it
had been up 45 days without a reboot and the file
system was still clean. I would anticipate that the
later vintages of UNIX were at least capable of
performing that well. The reason we let it run that
long was that every time DEC took it for PM, it took us
at least half a day to get it on-line again.