[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bob Koehler]

In article <e080d945-0523-4e37-a5cf-2abb7c76090f at y5g2000pbi.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> At one job I interviewed at in the late 90's they rebooted the VAX
> every day!

   We had an installation that we were putting small VAXen into that
   had grown up around IBM mainframes.  Our people had changed the
   mainframe from never rebooting, to rebooting once a week "just to
   clean things up".  Seemed to work.

   We just looked at our IBM experts like they were lost in the past.
   Mostly the VAXen rebooted after power loss (couldn't justify an UPS).

   Had another site where some of the VAXen had two completely different
   environments, major differences in SYSGEN parameters and sometimes
   differences in OS versions.  Stored each on removable disk packs and
   rebooted at least twice a day to switch between environments.