[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[John Reagan]

"Paul Sture" <paul.nospam at sture.ch> wrote in message 
news:paul.nospam-AC81E2.11340318052011 at pbook.sture.ch...
> In article <iqrbpt$utk$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>,
>
> I believe it was Larry Kilgallen who related the tale of how mount
> verification came into being.  IIRC the tale went that a new and junior
> member of VMS Engineering took a disk out without dismounting it first,
> causing some disruption.  Instad of being screamed at, the offender got
> told to address the problem, and mount verification was the outcome.
>

Sounds about right.  I heard the essentially the same story from Andy 
Goldstein.

John