[Info-vax] VMS on x86-64 timescales, was: Re: x86 Update 4/22/19

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-04-29, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/2019 9:46 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> That's possible, if you mean late 2020, but I doubt many will
>> use it in production for at least a year after that until the
>> initial teething issues have been worked out.
>
> How else does one work out initial teething issues other than to use the 
> product?  It's not something that just happens over time.
>
> My plan is to do some serious testing as soon as possible.  Yeah, fine, 
> plan all I want.  I know that the real testing happens when you actually 
> attempt to use the product.  At least it's always happened that way in 
> the past.
>

Planning to test something is not the same thing as being willing
to use it in production. :-)

Simon.

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