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“When the computer does batch jobs, a failure was not all that big of a deal. The general response to such has been and still is to reboot the system. To quote an iconic television show, have you tried turning it off and on again? Yes it almost always works, but look at the time you wasted. From the time when operator first notices the failure, snapshots the error code for future review, reboots, and gets back to work - you have lost about a hour, hour and a half. Most systems had abou”
Tandem Computers: Pioneering Fault-Tolerant Systems and Their Enduring Legacy ↗