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

[Chris Byrne]

I know personally of a vax that hasn't been rebooted since 1993

It runs a plastics manufacturing facility in MA.

Chris Byrne

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


I to this day maintain that somewhere there is a unix/vax/similar system
with an uptime of Longer than NT has existed.
	Nick

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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