[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 09:43:48 +0100, Roy Omond wrote:

> On 25/05/2012 08:27, JF Mezei wrote:
>> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>>> However, 6 characters also pack nicely into two 16-bit words, using
>>> Radix 50...
>>
>>
>> Far more likely that the VMS engineers rolled a dice and it ended up on
>> "6" and so the node name length limit was set to 6 :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
> 
> Micro$**t probably also rolled a die (note: singular) for the names of
> their disk drives and it ended up a "1" ...

Windows Server 2008 has a nice little denial of service trick.  When you 
assign a disk drive for backup, WS2008 takes away the drive letter so 
that nobody can get to it.

When you subsequently decide to use that drive for other purposes, you 
tell Windows backup to release it, and hey presto it comes back as A:

Now try rebooting :-)

P.S. Release another drive at the same time and that will come back as B:



-- 
Paul Sture