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

[Michael Kraemer]

Paul Sture schrieb:
> 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 :-)

Well, considering the praise of Weendoze in this group,
can't be that big of a crime ... :-)

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

seems to be the renaissance of the good old computer centre,
you just use a GUI nowadays, rather than bringing a
pile of punched cards.