MicroVAX 3100 booting... (now WinNT shutdown)

From: jpero_at_sympatico.ca <(jpero_at_sympatico.ca)>
Date: Thu Apr 26 12:49:27 2001

> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:26:43 -0500
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
> Subject: RE: MicroVAX 3100 booting... (now WinNT shutdown)
> Reply-to: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org

> At 12:09 PM 4/26/01 -0500, Brian Chase wrote:
> >I have to half-wonder if you're not being sarcastic here. The following
> >is taken from the publicly available logs of the first ISS crew:
>
> Me, sarcastic?

Good thing you should be. I agree w/ u.

>
> > Finally, jiggling some cables brings just a part of the net back. (that
> > really instills confidence in the stability of your network).
>
> At least some of the old tricks still work in microgravity.
> It just goes to show you, you *do* need to be a rocket scientist
> to keep a WinNT server going.

What!? NT is out there!?

That ISS crew shouldn't have NT up there. It is not rated for
that kind of reliablity. Down here, fine, but not up there with
everything depending on that thing. They should stick with something
more proven like IBM AIX, VMS, or Linux and non-standard but reliable
and proven hardware and wires rather than RJ-45 and such.

Cheers,

Wizard disgusted with this decision to chose NT for space
applications, >:-P But I'm anxious to cheer on that Canadarm2.
:-D

> - John
 
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