[rescue] Solaris on a PPC (now VMS)

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Thu Feb 6 00:37:49 CST 2003


On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 06:10  PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   VMS in particular is HUGE in non-Internet-connected industries in 
> which uptime, reliability, and security is a concern.  The defense 
> industry, for example, is swimming in a sea of VMS machines.  These 
> aren't little piddly things like "if this system goes down it'll cost 
> me money"...it's more like "if this system goes down it will cost 
> people their LIVES".  THIS is where VMS shines.
>
Did reliability suffer with the move from VAX hardware to Alpha?... how 
about Itanic?...

Andrew


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