SCO.com and Caldera.com dead

[Warren Postma]

>I know I am young, but frankly I just don't see how a machine could
>last 17 years without some serious work on the hardware. (To say
>nothing of kernel patches... Oh I know, have a box, leave it in a
>corner, plug it into a diesel generator and don't plug it into any
>network, leave it alone forever.)
>

To say nothing of:
(a) MTBPF (Mean Time between Power failures)
(b) MTBBBF (Mean Time between Battery Backup Unit failures)

How does one make a UPS Lead Acid battery that can last 17 years without 
changing it out? Did they have hot-swappable dual power supplies with 
separate UPS's on the IBM 80286 AT boxen they installed SCO Unix on 17 
years ago?

Warren



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