[rescue] Perverse Question

Tue Jun 17 15:49:50 CDT 2003

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:34:29PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 09:32 AM, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > I belive he's speaking in "MS Stability" not in any real overall 
> > meaning
> > of the term.  For a MS os it's amazingly stable... It's nearly as 
> > stable
> > as dos.
> 
>    ...and "stable" really shouldn't mean "it doesn't crash because we 
> reboot it every night."

Heh, I once had to mess around with SAF-style serial ports on a
machine set up to do exactly that.  NCR Unix on x86 hardware, running
a COBOL app.  Blecccch!

Cordially
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