Marise Gwin writes:
>battery backup kicked in.  Twenty minutes later we're up and cooking - no
>VREPAIR, no reloading of NLMs, no re-mirroring.  Just go.  ...
 
>I love telling those stories to the non-3000 world.  Too much, I'm sure.
> Too smug, too much of a UNIX -basher.
 
Again, _standards_. The user's data is precious; let's treat it as
such. I have a number of stories similar to Marise's, as do most
long-time HP3000 system managers. One time, the newly-hired corporate
controller at the company I worked for got wind of the fact that
we were going to do an operating system upgrade. The ex-IBMer stopped
me in the hall one afternoon and requested that I schedule the upgrade
over the upcoming Christmas shutdown. He said that he wanted to get
December closed before the shutdown and wouldn't be able to if we
took the system down for a week. I then had the inestimable pleasure
of informing him that we had already done the upgrade over that day's
lunch hour.
 
It is AMAZING what users of other systems put up with.
 
-- Bruce
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PS. Admittedly, that was in the days when all HP-supplied software fit on
one 1200-foot 1600bpi tape!
 
- B