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From: foo@titan.rice.edu (Mark Hall)
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Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
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Date: 5 Jun 89 13:40:24 GMT
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In article <4420012@hpihoah.HP.COM> fotland@hpihoah.HP.COM (Dave Fotland) writes:
>Mainframes have other distinguishing
>features, such as:
>
>Availability (total unplanned downtime/total time) > 99.8% 

   Our experience has been that  unplanned downtime/total  has been
 no more than 90%

   ;^)