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

[Dave McGuire]

  This would not be entirely surprising.

    -Dave McGuire

On March 25, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> 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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