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Re:Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be rest... by DuskStar on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:13PM (#22066537)
Mainframes tend to be designed with extreme uptime in mind - to the point of often having hot-swappable processors.
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Re:Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be rest... by marcosdumay on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:48PM (#22067578)
The software doesn't care. It will crash anyway.
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Re:Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be rest... by DuskStar on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:38PM (#22068046)
Oh, of course. But the MTBF for 'sleep 500y' on a mainframe is higher than on commodity x86 hardware.
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