[geeks] Eeeek

[Jochen Kunz]

On 2002.04.11 01:46 Sridhar the POWERful wrote:

> Bringing a mainframe up with a full set of
> power-on tests takes about half an hour.
That fast? Ragge (NetBSD VAX portmaster) told once that they have a full
blown VAX 8800 with 1/2GB RAM up there in north sweden. The RAM test
only takes 45 minutes. Usually they bring the machine once a year down
to replace broken disks. (There are about 5 to 6 dozen connected to that
machine.) 
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         Jochen

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