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

[John Wallace]

On Mar 15, 3:52 pm, David Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> > Johnny Billquist schrieb:
>
> >> True, since in Unix-land, the occasional corruption of data is
> >> considered an acceptable tradeoff.
>
> > On these occasions (and in general) there wasn't corruption of data
> > on Unix.
> > There was, however, a corruption of service on VMS,
> > which was by far the larger damage.
>
> You should not use a hammer to drive a screw, and you should not use a screwdriver to
> hammer a nail.
>
>  From reading your posts, I can only assume that you are blaming VMS for other problems,
> such as network failure, and poorly configured systems for whatever your requirements are.
>
> If you're posting here to show that you've been able to poorly configure computer systems,
> life is too short, get one.

"You should not use a hammer to drive a screw, and you should not use
a screwdriver to hammer a nail."

People have been using hammers to drive screws and vice versa in IT
for years, and hardly anybody ever worries about it and even fewer
people are ever held accountable for getting things screwed up. :(