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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: FYI: VM systems on the net
Message-ID: <494@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 15:50:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 24 15:50:39 1986
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>Since VM handles all the I/O, it is an excellent system for people who
>who are debugging Physical IOCS. Vm will not let the user move the 
>disk heads outside their alloted area even with PIOCS. Thus one user
>cannot corrupt anothers files by accident  or even on purpose.

We recently got a 3081 running VM.  When the 3081 itself crashed,
EVERYBODY's files were trashed!

I shall never understand how you can make a computer more reliable
by simulating it on another computer.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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