On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:32:18AM +0100, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> Of course in any real engineering project, availability of the system is
> what's measured, so you have lots of redundant systems, such that the
> failure of any one is not critical. This is especially important in e.g.
> aviation, a field where uptime is a very meaningful word.
And downtime is more of a state-change than a state.
John
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