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

[Michael Kraemer]

Keith Parris schrieb:

> 
> This does not represent a bug or problem in the OS; 

This problem persisted since the days of VAX and BNC ethernet cabling
and wasn't solved with Alpha's and TP cabling, so I agree
it must be a feature, not a bug. Or maybe one should call it
"bug by design"?

> it is the 
> appropriate reaction to a lengthy problem in the network. VMS is doing 
> exactly the right thing under the circumstances to protect the data.

Crashing an entire workstation cluster due to some network problem
can hardly be called "the right thing".
At least not of this cluster has to perform serious monitoring
tasks and thus has to be "up" all the time.
And certainly not when Unix boxen sharing data over the very same
network have no such problems.