[SunRescue] Am I the only guy here who like VMS?
Dave McGuire
rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Mar 25 14:18:20 CST 2001
This would not be entirely surprising.
-Dave McGuire
On March 25, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> I to this day maintain that somewhere there is a unix/vax/similar system
> with an uptime of Longer than NT has existed.
> Nick
>
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 01:54:29AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > You should read Dennis Ritchie's disparaging words about the early
> > > design of VMS! ;-)
> > > It is really still a pretty backwards system in many ways (not that I
> > > know all that much about it :-).
> >
> > The #1 feature of VMS/OpenVMS:
> >
> > *DEPENDABILITY*.
> >
> > It Just Doesent Break. There's an anectdotal story somewhere (will
> > see if I can find the URL) about a VMS system helping spot a bug in
> > the uptime counter code (or somesuch) - because it rolled over a
> > TEN YEAR uptime.
> >
> > (no, I am not shitting you)
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > --
> > Bill Bradford
> > mrbill at mrbill.net
> > Austin, TX
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