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

[Jay E. Morris]

On 1/28/2013 9:18 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.
>

We had an engineer on site from ...whoever did Mumps... about some 
upgrades.  At one point she asked me when was the last time I'd rebooted 
the Alphas.  When I told her over two years she said that I needed to 
reboot them at least weekly. I told her that what we really needed was 
to be in a three story building instead of just one.

Huh?

So I can throw you out a window.

We didn't get along well after that.