[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <fgi139-ui41.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:53:05 +0000, VAXman- wrote:
> 
> Well, er, back when everyone in my office had both a Alpha PWS and a PC 
> on their desk, we also suffered a lot of network problems.  All those 
> Alphas were booted as cluster satellites, network problems would bring 
> them back to the boot screen, and that screen colour was blue.
 
Welcome to the club, I know this all too well.
And yet people still talk about a "rock solid" OS ...
 
> Our solitary Unix expert used to goad us with cries of "Blue Screen of 
> Death" when that happened.

It's called ... wait ... "Affinity", ISTR,
Weendoze boxes and Alphas both crashing the same way.