At 10:16 PM 3/25/2010, you wrote: >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
We had a VAX 600 running here at the Lab that resided on it's own little network, and it had an uptime of well over 10 years... Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
