Re: Try THAT on NT...

["Carl Friedberg, carl@xxxxxxxxxx" <FRIEDBERG@xxxxxxx>]

As a DEC VMS maven, I've had similar experiences during VMS upgrades.
With current hardware, however, they rarely require more than
30 minutes. There is now a very robust software system
installer, PCSI, and I'm very happy with that.

On NT, on a new machine, it rarely takes more than 2 hours
to install the base os, whether workstation or server. To
be sure, I've had to repeat the install on numerous occasions :-).

Just my 2cents (flame armor on).
Carl
    Carl Friedberg  carl@comets.com v +1.212.233.5470
    Comet & Company
    165 William St 9th floor
    New York City, NY 10038


The following is copied from News/400's July Street Talk ..,.

> Try that with NT! One NEWS/400 technical editor recently got to 
> see how well IBM's software engineers built the V4R2 upgrade 
> programs.  Three hours into his (OS/400) V4R2 upgrade, his power 
> went out.   Thinking that he would have to reload the operating system 
> from scratch, he re-IPLed the machine. After a while, he was prompted 
> for another CD, and the AS/400 resumed upgrading where it had left 
> off.  Wow! 

Cool :)
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