Tired Techie Botched Preventative Maintenance He Soon Learned Wasn't Needed
The Register, Monday, January 27th, 2025
Epic late-night road trip would have been an awesome if not for a secret change of plans
This week, meet a reader we don't need to Regomize because his name is Dave and he is happy for us to use it.
Dave sent a tale of his time working for a company that operated a PC he was told simply had to run 24x7. No ifs, no buts. No change windows allowed. This PC would always run.
The machine ran SCO Unix (which later became the subject of perplexingly lengthy litigation) and two workloads. One was a reporting app. The other was a program that took the horrible format of the reporting app's output and translated it into something other software could consume.