[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Steven Schweda]

Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> the spooks said that the ict people weren't allowed to look at the
> machine while running[*], so when it crashed, the only hint came from
> the console output: by the time the support people got to it, the
> memory had been wiped.
>
> amazing any bugs got resolved -- i'm assured they did.

   Once, when I was visiting a well-guarded installation at
Fort Meade, a project manager there met me in the parking lot,
and handed over a reel of tape containing a failing test case,
which he had brought out under his coat.  _He_ knew how to get
a bug fixed.