On 9/21/2011 13:51, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Yeah, I'm wondering exactly how long an unattented power plant, telephone
> exchange or water plant will continue functioning... Somebody somewhere
> probably has data for this.

For the Bell system as it existed back in 1990 or so, the estimate is that 
it would run 17 years before the network would have a major partition, as 
long as nobody dicked around with it.

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