[ih] Yet another subject change: Testing (Was Re: Gateway Issue: Certification (was Re: booting linux on a 4004))

[Dave Crocker]

On 10/3/2024 6:21 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> But an Operator, or IMP programmer, could look back at the paper logs 
> and often discover an imminent problem, or see the events which led up 
> to a reported problem to be fixed. 

I heard a story that in the early days, NOC folk would see an increasing 
rate of errors on a link, contact the relevant phone company -- not all 
were AT&T -- and tell them that that line was about to fail.  The phone 
folk reportedly had no experience with a customer's offering such 
predictions and were initially dismissive.  I was told that that 
attitude changed quickly...

d/

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