Re: Ready to scrap an AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

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> >  imho, yes. Isn't the operating system supposed to be in control? And
> parcel
> >  out resources to various applications? Should it allow any application
> to
> >  simply take over *all* resources, so that an operator can't even end the
> >  application?
>
> By all means OS should always stay in control. In ideal world. But be
> reasonable - in a real world it's not humanly possible to foresee all
> possible complications.

it is not necessary to 'foresee all possible complications' to build a solid
system. It is amazing how Bill Gates's buggy software has conditioned
everyone to the notion that software has to have bugs.



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