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Re: ??? (was RE: A simple guy with a simple problem)
- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:13:28 -0500
Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Question for you: Do you ever get a requirement that requires all system
> operations
> to return in under 3 seconds and the operational reliability to be 99.99% of
> the
> time 24/7? Do we?
>
> Everyday, everytime, in every proposal.
30 seconds of downtime per year???
Presumably you write in assembly language on the bare metal of mil-spec
hardware, otherwise you are depending on other people's code/gear that is
nowhere near that reliable.
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