Gosh, for people "fleeing" from it ten years ago, IBM is sure doing great
business providing total solutions! And the "mainframe" never died - it
just morphed and still runs with even higher reliability. And so do the
IBM i/pSeries servers, which have benefitted from that same RAS design
concept.
73, Duane (OK, I'll stop talking shop now)
Hardware System Test Architect
i/pSeries Servers
IBM Austin
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 08:35:38 -0800 "NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de> writes:
> Five 9's is marketing and not obtainable in an "open" environment,
> but four
> 9's is achievable. To reach five 9's one would have to go back to
> accepting
> a total solution with ALL hard and soft components out of one and
> the same
> house (e.g., IBM, DEC, HP, etc.) and that's what people fled from 10
> years
> ago. Today's reality is four 9's, but that's till pretty good.
>
> But no matter what we do, one thing is for certain (as Forest Gump
> put it):
> "Shit Happens"
> And Murphy determines when and where and to whom!
> ;-)
>
> 73
> Rick
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of GARY HUBER
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:19 AM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Something to think about as we start the New
> Year:
>
> Another reason to try for "Five NINES" in Quality Control!
>
> Best regards,
> Gary - AB9M
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX<mailto:RMcGraw@Blomand.Net>
> To: Tentec<mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:23 AM
> Subject: [TenTec] Something to think about as we start the New
> Year:
>
>
> If 1000 Orion II's are shipped this year then based on the
> following, only
>
> ONE will actually be defective.
>
> 73
> Bob, K4TAX
>
>
> > If 99.9% is good enough, then.....
> >
> > Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
> >
> > 811,000 faulty rolls of 35 mm film will be loaded this year.
> >
> > 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in
> the next
> 60
> > minutes.!
> >
> > 1314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunications
> services every
> > minute.
> >
> > 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
> >
> > 268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year.
> >
> > 14,208 defective personal computers will be shipped this year.
> >
> > 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this
> year.
> >
> > 2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the
> wrong
> > cover.
> >
> > 5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months
> will be
> > flat.
> >
> > Two plane landings daily at O'Hare International Airport in
> Chicago will
>
> > be unsafe.
> >
> > 3,056 copies of tomorrows Wall Street Journal will be missing
> one of the
>
> > three sections.
> >
> > 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour.
> >
> > 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this
> year.
> >
> > 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have
> incorrect
> > cardholder information on their magnetic strips.
> >
> > $9690 will be spent today, tomorrow and every day in the future
> on
> > defective, often unsafe sporting equipment.
> >
> > 55 malfunctioning ATM's will be installed in the next 12
> months.
> >
> > 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next
> 12
> months.
> >
> > 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.
> >
> > $761,900 will be spent in the next 12 months on tapes and
> compact discs
> > that won't play.
> >
> > 107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of
> the
> day.
> >
> > 315 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of
> the
> English
> > Language will turn out to be misspelled.
> >
>
>
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