Re: COBOL Compiler for Windows

On May 2, 5:40=A0am, Binyamin Dissen <postin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

> :>> Spoken like a true PC expert, who has no problem with reboots. So
much=
 so,
> :>> that they do it multiple times a day.
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> :>I have a Win 98 SE machine that runs 24/7. It was last rebooted 3
months=

> :>ago. The Notebook I am writing this on (Win XP SP2) has not been
booted =
for
> :>6 days (it hibernates between uses).
>
> Running at 95% CPU most of the time?
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> :>The last commercial site I was managing had multiple 8 processor Xeons
a=
nd
> :>they were cold booted twice during the year I was there.
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> Not familiar with the hardware.
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> :>The last IBM mainframe system I worked on (admittedly a long time ago
no=
w),
> :>was rebooted every Monday morning after Preventive Maintenance.
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> Measured in decades. They weren't close to 5 9s at that time.
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> :>While I don't claim to be a PC expert, I certainly have no problem
with
> :>rebooting ANY computer system if it needs it.
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> The issue is how often it needs it.
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> And is the first response from a sup****t call - reboot the machine?
>
> :>> Point two is really 5 9s.
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> :>45...? :-)
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> 99.999% availability. Quite im****tant when doing heavy transaction
loads.
>
> :>> The reliability of mainframes and their components are such that
failu=
res
> :>> can
> :>> be tolerated with fallover, so that the end users are not even aware
t=
hat
> :>> a
> :>> component has failed.
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> :>The same is easily achievable with network servers also.
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> Multiple paths to the data and redundant data?
>
> Nice.
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> :>> Mainframes regularly run months without rebooting. And that is with
CP=
U
> :>> 95%+
> :>> busy much of the time.
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> :>So do certain networks. Your point?
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> Certain networks run at 95% CPU?


You seem to co-mingle the term 'PC' with the Windows operating system.
The first machine referred to as a 'PC' was the Apple ][ in 1979. It
happens that IBM's design for their 'PC' became dominent and that
Microsoft became the majority OS on this design.

But it is only Windows that reboots and uses 95% CPU and has spyware
and virusses. Using the same 'PC' hardware as may be used for a
Windows machine I have systems that have only been rebooted after the
power has failed.