[geeks] Eeeek

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Jochen Kunz 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.)

I didn't even know that you could get 128MB RAM's for a VAX 8800 (I have
one of these machine).  And don't forget that this is a three-year-old
mainframe.

Peace...  Sridhar