[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-01-14, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> COOP!!
>
> 40 years ago before any of this OOP or Agile crap took over
> the IT world I worked doing COBOL in a Univac 1100 environment,
> Once a month we used to pack up a backup set and travel to Rome
> AFB which was our designated COOP site.  We would take over one
> of their 1100's for the morning and do a complete restoration
> of the OS and all our data from the backup tape. Does anyone
> still do this?  Does anyone here even know what COOP means
> (without Googling it!!)
>

I (correctly) guessed the first two letters were "Continuity of"
(the US Government likes that phrase) but was not familiar with the
last two letters.

Looked up the definition and it's just another USG specific name
for what is known by multiple names elsewhere. :-)

For example, I refer to what you call COOP as a Business Continuity Plan.

Simon.

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