[Info-vax] IBM nearing deal to acquire Red Hat

[Dave Froble]

On 5/4/2019 2:22 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 5/4/19 12:53 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>
>> Probably because of concepts.  A reboot is not normally a part of
>> running VMS.  That might not be so in other environments.
>>
>
> Another myth that should be put to rest.  When the University was
> still running on VMS it was managed by someone most people here
> would recognize as an authority  on VMS management.  They used
> to reboot the systems regularly and never left them running for
> more than a month with out a reboot.  Just because some people
> let them go longer and even see some value in the bragging
> rights doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea.
>
> bill
>
>

If the purpose was to recover some CPUs, I doubt a month is appropriate.

Galaxy was a great idea.  If it wasn't, would we have VMs today?  Not 
the same thing, but, in the same direction.

I was not trying to re-start the old arguments about uptime and 
re-boots.  I was just stating that "re-boot" is not a common occurrence 
with some VMS people.  I got no problems with re-boots.

The topic was Galaxy, and it appears from other posts that the ability 
to move CPUs around is still a unique capability.  Or perhaps not.

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