Take My Software, Please

摘要

Many years ago I had a job working for "ACME Codeworks," a small mainframe software vendor. One day my boss asked me to evaluate a backup app as a candidate for acquisition. I installed it, and the mainframe promptly crashed. Off to the computer room I went, where my colleagues and I spent several hours bringing the system back up. (This fact should provide an approximate date for this story; these days, if an OS crashes, it usually restarts itself while you're waiting for the elevator.)