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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-03-13 15.22, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Keith Parris schrieb:
>
>> 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.

True, since in Unix-land, the occasional corruption of data is 
considered an acceptable tradeoff.

	Johnny