From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3567507bfec78fe2a931bf70f402f6b1@quintile.net> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:11:55 +0100 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <3461412223528350ee60daf448faa0cd@ladd.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] /sys/include/ip.h 5c(1) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8402e31c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I once worked for a telco who's exchanges where connected to their billing machines via a pair of IBM PS2 MCA machines, they also had one spare machine. I was there in about 1997 and everyone very worried what might happen if they lost more than one of these machines. The last I heard the large, complex, fault tolerant Unix system that they built to replace them still didn't work well enough to be relied on. -Steve