More than 10 years on for a Solaris server, but the article in french sorry says that it's far behing the 16 years an Amiga run for an Hungary TV channel !


http://www.pcworld.fr/materiel/actualites,3737-jours-plus-tard-serveur-solaris-9-eteint-sun-280r,536941,1.htm?utm_source=xml&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Kamelito

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kamelit0 wrote: More than 10 years on for a Solaris server, but the article in french sorry says that it's far behing the 16 years an Amiga run for an Hungary TV channel !

Pardon !!!


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http://www.pcworld.fr/materiel/actualites,3737-jours-plus-tard-serveur-solaris-9-eteint-sun-280r,536941,1.htm?utm_source=xml&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Plus the link doesn't work so that make it even harder to figure out what you were trying to say there...

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I think he means a company used an Amiga before their current Solaris server for a TV channel.

Last edited by danwood on 15-Mar-2013 at 11:56 AM.

All system administrators will tell you, the old - but robust - Solaris stations are indestructible. Machines as in fact some would say even more. And a new video on YouTube since it confirms the old Sun 280R server running Solaris 9 displays to counter an "uptime" of 3737 days.

The machine is part of a cluster, it was still stable and could continue without problem by the administrator of this server. But now, the company moved and must turn bays to move. Although it was still far from the record held to this day by an Amiga with over 16 years of loyal service for Hungarian television channel.


http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcworld.fr%2Fmateriel%2Factualites%2C3737-jours-plus-tard-serveur-solaris-9-eteint-sun-280r%2C536941%2C1.htm%3Futm_source%3Dxml%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Drss

Last edited by ddni on 15-Mar-2013 at 12:05 PM.

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thanks.

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kamelito

@ddni

Thanks for the link and translation...


@ kamelito

It actually doesn't come as surprise to me to find out that a Hungarian TV station has been using an Amiga for 16 years solid. They are the most reliable computers I have ever came across and I've yet to have one break down on me in 27 years...

Heck my main towered A1200 is switched on permanently along with my monitor and in the past 8 years the only time they have ever been off was on 3 occasions when we had a power cut...

I've always said never switch of yer miggies and they'll last a lifetime, works for me. Never had to replace caps like I always read people on the forums doing and the only things I've had to replace were HD's, not cos they were worn out but simply to upgrade them to bigger drives...

Say what you want about Commodore but when they built the Amiga they built them to last unlike todays stuff...

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Say what you want about Commodore but when they built the Amiga they built them to last unlike todays stuff...

Here here, well said. They made some reliable products even if they couldn't market them.

Rude!

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In Finland YLE (national broadcast) used Amigas with VLAB for streaming.

Dont know much more it. But in time there was no other possibilities :)

It was so called good time ...

In North America, there are hundreds if not thousands of Amiga based Video Toaster workstations still in use. If a 720p resolution Video Toaster had of been developed for Amiga, there would be even more in use right now.

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@kamelit0

Yeah, know that. In Hungary i know not just one. The funniest moment was, when i switched to that tv channel, and they only broadcast the black/red Guru Meditation...

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Derringer wrote: @kamelit0 Yeah, know that. In Hungary i know not just one. The funniest moment was, when i switched to that tv channel, and they only broadcast the black/red Guru Meditation...

Back when tv stations used SCALA on Amigas for tv listings you could sometimes see the GURU or just a regular reboot.. unmistakable!

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In USA there was a TV station called Prevue [sic] Channel. It was a program guide or TV schedule or whatever you want to call it. Later it started to air advertisements on half of the screen. It then became the TV Guide Channel. These TV listing stations have been replaced with set top boxes (usually with a built in DVR) that can display the listings with the push of a button, instead of having to wait for their listings to scroll through which could take minutes.

The Prevue channel used an Amiga for a while. And it too had times when it had Guru Meditations, restarted, and or was displaying WorkBench.

I also think that there was a time that The Weather Channel's Local On The 8s were operated by Amigas. But I am not sure.

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I was wrong. Local On The 8s used WeatherStar computers, which are not much different than Amiga 68K computers.

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Sadly both TV Guide and The Weather Channel both switched to Intel.

I still think that the older Solaris, RISC OS, DEC, and Amiga Hardware is superior.

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