On 12 Nov 2006 18:14:20 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote:
This is basically for my curiousity. It isn't going to
happen here
anytime at all. But I am wondering how the people who do
it, do remote
sysprogging?
Short FOAF story from many years back, before the
days of VPN and HMCs:
Company decides to move all personnel except
operators a few of miles from the machine room. A few
months later the system crashes. Sysprogs say they must go
to the machine to fix it. They go onsite and fix it. Word
comes down from the top: "Sysprogs' desks may not be more
than 500 feet from the computer room."
Notes:
FOAF is in the Jargon file; check there if you don't
know what it means.
"500 feet": It may have been a different number, but
I think this is within a factor of 2.
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