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Yes, it is.

When I was in college we had IBM mainframes and Vaxen. I did
almost all of my computing on the Vaxen. Not only were they
easier to use; they were solid as a rock. I never actually
experienced a crash, though I did occasionally hear about them.
When did happen, it was a big deal--a rare event that was taken
very seriously by the people who maintained them. They would
actually study the core dumps to get to the bottom of the
problem and address it. It's pretty amazing to think that kind of
reliability was commonplace 20 years ago yet it's rare today.
Now computer crashes are routine, and all the support staff can
do is reboot your machine and cross their fingers, and if it
happens too often they just wipe out all your files and reinstall
Windows.

That's progress?

Posted by: Immanuel Tranz-Mischen   Posted on: 05/08/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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