1 Nov
2001
1 Nov
'01
4:56 a.m.
Brian Hechinger <wonko(a)arkham.ws> wrote:
us UNIX weenie wave our uptime numbers around at each
other, VMS people don't
do that. why? you install VMS, boot the machine, and expect it to run until
you take it offline. the pair of 6000 boxes at the one place i worked at ran
from the day they were installed, up until they were removed from the facility
late last year. never shut down. not once. god i love that stuff.
Guess you weren't running UCX then.
Back then, it was hard to find a packet that _didn't_ cause a fatal
bug check on a machine running UCX. Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating just
a little bit, but it sure was annoying and all we got from DEC was
"so don't do that".