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

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:30:01 +0000, Michael Kraemer wrote:

> 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.

Wash your mouth out with soap for using the "A"-word :-)

But this scenario does make one wonder about the headlong rush to the 
cloud...



-- 
Paul Sture