What would your world be without *NIX?

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
mmmmm redundancy.

Yep, I was seconds away from getting out our tapes. We backup nightly, but at a retail chain when you lose sales for 4 hours of the morning...people aren't too excited

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: drag
Also don't forget that Microsoft's first full-fledged operating system was Xenix. A Unix variant.

A Unix variant without a TCP/IP stack.

Of course, back in the day, raw serial communication was state of the art.

 

[NewBlackDak]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
mmmmm redundancy.

Last time I had a problem like this it wasn't a software problem. We actually lost a processor on one of the boards in one of our sun servers. It took a minute to find out there was a bad processor, and even then we were only able to peg it down to one board. It was trial-and-error removing one then the other. Of course it wasn't the first one I tried. I could have gone to the backup machine, but it is so slow that it took less time troubleshooting the main one.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Klixxer

Originally posted by: drag
Also don't forget that Microsoft's first full-fledged operating system was Xenix. A Unix variant.

A Unix variant without a TCP/IP stack.

Of course, back in the day, raw serial communication was state of the art.

Who here, besides me, has actualy used xenix?

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Klixxer

Originally posted by: drag
Also don't forget that Microsoft's first full-fledged operating system was Xenix. A Unix variant.

A Unix variant without a TCP/IP stack.

Of course, back in the day, raw serial communication was state of the art.

Who here, besides me, has actualy used xenix?

Anybody ever work at blockbuster? Or Mcdonalds? Or any retail channel that used computerized system for their cash registers or automated systems any time in the past 10 years?

Then you'd probably used Xenix or at least SCO's version or decendants of it, although you probably didn't know it...

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: drag

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Klixxer

Originally posted by: drag
Also don't forget that Microsoft's first full-fledged operating system was Xenix. A Unix variant.

A Unix variant without a TCP/IP stack.

Of course, back in the day, raw serial communication was state of the art.

Who here, besides me, has actualy used xenix?

Anybody ever work at blockbuster? Or Mcdonalds? Or any retail channel that used computerized system for their cash registers or automated systems any time in the past 10 years?

Then you'd probably used Xenix or at least SCO's version or decendants of it, although you probably didn't know it...

Or AIX

But that's only cause we are using a "bleeding edge" system

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: drag

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Klixxer

Originally posted by: drag
Also don't forget that Microsoft's first full-fledged operating system was Xenix. A Unix variant.

A Unix variant without a TCP/IP stack.

Of course, back in the day, raw serial communication was state of the art.

Who here, besides me, has actualy used xenix?

Anybody ever work at blockbuster? Or Mcdonalds? Or any retail channel that used computerized system for their cash registers or automated systems any time in the past 10 years?

Then you'd probably used Xenix or at least SCO's version or decendants of it, although you probably didn't know it...

I meant Xenix Xenix, back in the day. And really use it, not punch in the orders for tomorrow.

Pizza slut uses SCO.