[SunRescue] Am I the only guy here who like VMS?

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 01:54:29AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> You should read Dennis Ritchie's disparaging words about the early
> design of VMS!  ;-)
> It is really still a pretty backwards system in many ways (not that I
> know all that much about it :-).

The #1 feature of VMS/OpenVMS:

*DEPENDABILITY*.

It Just Doesent Break.  There's an anectdotal story somewhere (will
see if I can find the URL) about a VMS system helping spot a bug in
the uptime counter code (or somesuch) - because it rolled over a
TEN YEAR uptime.

(no, I am not shitting you)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX