Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > Ah, VMS. DEC in all it's glory! Still my favorite OS! > Very sad! It was so CONSISTENT, if a particular option was in a particular place, or spelled a certain way, it would be that way everywhere it appeared! That was wonderful.
Now that I am a pretty-well converted Linux guy, I can see some of the places it didn't run all that well. One was if files got too fragmented, the file system (RMS) would just crash, and the de-fragmenting was pretty messy, rolling the whole volume to tape and restoring. Creating a child process was awfully slow. As memory got bigger, the page size was way too small, and the page table became a monster. The Alpha architecture tried to fix the last one, but it only partially accomplished that. We still have an Alpha system running at work. I finally retired my home VaxStation-II that I built from boards bought from brokers. KA-630, VCB-02. The hard drive croaked. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
