Back to the bleeding-edge future
Flashback to the 1980s, when the data center where this pilot fish works is on the bleeding edge of technology: a new, top-of-the-line IBM multiprocessor mainframe.
"After it was installed, we started to run our normal workloads -- and then we started getting all sorts of system dumps," says fish.
"We all looked at the various dumps and didn't see an issue. The instructions in the software that weren't working should be working. We called IBM and reported that the hardware wasn't working the way it was supposed to."
The trouble ticket is escalated, and eventually a senior field engineer arrives. He looks at the dumps and agrees with the data center team. He calls in the senior sales engineer on the account, who finally agrees that something isn't right.
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