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Article #624021Re: 1977: PDP ties together emergency reporting network
From: Grant Taylor
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:00
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:00
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On 06/21/2018 01:24 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Now we have a literal interpretation of "Blue Screen of Death". Not in my friends case. 1) the machines were running AIX which doesn't have a BSOD. 2) The dispatchers were well trained and drilled (monthly) to run manual dispatching. The dispatchers absolutely HATED manual dispatch but were quite capable of doing it. So even if the Computer Aided Dispatch system went down, dispatching did not stop. But it does put what is mission / life critical in a different perspective. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
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