The Pankian Metaphor 3127

This not familiar is what I find impossible. I suppose this is evidence of the philosophical difference between DEC and IBM. I have never met an operations staff who didn't know what was going on.

Yes, of course. That's why an operator had a need to know about what was running so he, not she, could plan their work night. (I said he because women weren't usually allowed to work alone at night waybackwhen.)

And this placed the responsibility of a smooth running job on the user. What the user got in return was elimination of all the red tape required for any support from operations. To most people using DEC gear, this was a no-brainer choice. They gleefully took all responsibility.

This will imply that nobody will have a skillset of being able to react, solve and keep the shop running if the failure is new an unique. Noone will have the "instinct" of knowing how to circumvent the latest hiccup. Running on old gear and software caused most people to do this kind of work automagically.

She's always been way ahead of the times. She must have wanted to kick a lot of butts.

Did you use any kind of programming to study this stuff? Note: I know I know nothing about this and have no idea what questions to ask and probably won't understand the answers.

BAH