Agreed, the HP3000 is certainly a workhorse and more
than favorably compares against many other systems.
With that said, I have worked in shops with one system
through twenty plus systems, and system failures of
one form or another were/are common place.  I might also
add that I've never worked in a "normal" (if there is such
a place) shop.  Every one had unique requirements that
needed a technical support staff (or person :)  to "get
business done".
  Let's see, I guess its been about a month now that I haven't
run across a bug that dropped a box (for doing legit things
I should add).  HP researched/developed/provided a patch for
the (non production) problem in less than two weeks I believe
so all is well.  As long as the OS is being enhanced, there will
be bugs to be found in it.  For my part, I'm glad to find one
in my testing since that means that its one that (should) never
be hit in production.
 
Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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Sent:   Wednesday, July 31, 1996 10:43 PM
To:     Editcorp
Subject:        HP3000 vs. AS400
 
 
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Steady on people ! I know that we all love to sing the praises of the HP3000
but lets stick to reality here. To just cite one example, aren't you forgetting
the multiple system failures experienced by many shops on account of the 7933
"white powder" problem ? ( yes , I know it was a disk drive problem but a SF is
a SF). Personally, I have worked at a site that used to experience several
system failures a day among their ten HP3000s and this eventually was reduced
to zero in a whole month but that was a cause for the champagne to flow! While
I appreciate the durability of the HP3000, I know I cannot fit the count of
system failures that I have experienced into 4 bits (perhaps 5!).
 
Cheers,
John Dunlop