• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:13:28 -0500

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:


> Question for you: Do you ever get a requirement that requires all system
> operations 
> to return in under 3 seconds and the operational reliability to be 99.99% of
> the 
> time 24/7?  Do we?  
> 
> Everyday, everytime, in every proposal.

30 seconds of downtime per year???

Presumably you write in assembly language on the bare metal of mil-spec
hardware, otherwise you are depending on other people's code/gear that is
nowhere near that reliable.
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