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[Snoopy]

In article <452 at geowhiz.UUCP> larry at geowhiz.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:

>8) Robustness.  VMS almost *never* crashes.  Unix crashes all the time.

Doghouse has not crashed due to software for over a year, and that
was when I was evaluating a new kernel and found a problem.  (Which
the kernel group fixed before I signed the paperwork to ship the
release.)  Hardware crashes are another story.  I don't have a UPS,
and it's hardly Unix's fault that someone plugs too much stuff in
and throws the circuit breaker.  I haven't lost any files, at any rate.
(And yes, fsck runs automatically when the machine comes up, unless
it was run as part of a clean powerdown.)

If your machines are crashing "all the time", something is wrong,
but don't blame it on "Unix".

Snoopy
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