[Info-vax] Asking for input

Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing winston at SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Aug 6 21:04:39 EDT 2009


In article <1202eee9-3df6-4f28-bd51-e1e95b2a0b8e at q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>, starchild <totheedgeoftime at msn.com> writes:
>Hello c.o.v
>I am in the process of designing some bumper stickers and t-shirts
>that will show off our VMS pride. So I am asking for input/thoughts
>etc. Right now I have 1 sticker that has
>"24x7 Nonstop Computing" on top
>OpenVMS in the middle
>VAX, Alpha, Integrity and beyond on the bottom
>On the right side  "When Downtime Is Not An Option"
>I  plan to upload a jpeg/img in the next day or so.
>I will consider any thoughts even negative ones.

I like the idea of the bumper stickers, etc.  But I think you shouldn't say
"Nonstop".  While HP was using "Nonstop Computing" for all their BCS for a 
while there (and as a result the title of my book on webservers calls OpenVMS
the Nonstop Webserver), it seems they've dropped that and Nonstop is now 
just the name of what used to be the Tandem line, so I think using the word
confuses matters now.

How about "True 24x7 Computing" instead?

-- Alan




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