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

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> This is where the real VMS engineering did shine. They made unpopular
> decisions (such as forcing a crash, or the much hated RWAST and RWMBX
> states) because they did spend the time to think about all the
> implications and saw possibilities where there would be corruption and
> made damned sure that it wouldn't happen.

In VMS logic there might be more or less good reasons
for such actions, but at the bottom line it appears as
committing suicide for fear of death.
It also leaves the notorious mantra
"when downtime is no option" a bit dubious, to say the least.