[proxy_user]

"ran its system for 17 years without a single reboot. Try to accomplish that on today’s systems.

I dunno about that. We ran a Solaris machine for five or six years without rebooting. Then the hardware wore out.

[Pessimist]

"Then the hardware wore out."

Good point.

And anyway, how many businesses nowadays don't want any changes to their apps or system for periods of years?

Of course I guess VMS users might not, since their nothing new to put on them anyway.

[Calvin Locke]

I was thinking the same thing. I thought VMS had a memory leak bug that essentially required a reboot once a month or so.

My school bought one of the few DECSystem 20's when I was graduating. I developed code on a PDP 11/70 running
Xenix. We went with VAXs a couple of years later, but everybody aliased the VAX commands to the less cumbersome Unix set.