[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/17/22 1:42 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 

Exactly.  Continuity Of OPerations.  Does anyone actually do this
anymore?

bill