[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Forster, Michael]

A tradesman chooses the best tool for the job or task at hand. One OS doesn't cover all. Also purpose and supportability needs to be considered. One last item, sometimes good enough is the best rather than an ideal but costly solution (to DR or not is an example - we can't afford the costs of no downtime etc). 

On May 17, 2011, at 6:27 PM, "Michael Moroney" <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:

> Keith Parris <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>> On 5/17/2011 12:35 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
>>> For those who understand German, there was a bit of (unintentional?)
>>> humour in C't magazine a few years back:
>>> 
>>>    [...] ein gut konfigurierter Windows-Rechner, an dem niemand
>>>    herumspielt, läuft auch über mehrere Tage stabil.
>>>                                                    (c't 14/2004, S. 147)
>>> 
> 
>> And for those who don't understand German, Babelfish says:
> 
>> "a well configured Windows computer, at which nobody plays, runs also 
>> over several days stably."
> 
> I once heard a comment in this group that (paraphrased) "Windows is quite
> stable, as long as it is not being used."  (the context was that a VAX 
> emulator was started on a Windows machine and was quite stable (long 
> uptimes) because the VAX emulator used minimal use of the underlying 
> Windows OS, and an otherwise idle Windows system is stable)
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