On Friday 26 March 2010, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: >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
And I once had a CBS supplied PDP-11/23 that self reset itself several times a day, and just plain crashed several more times. DEC field service couldn't fix it and they changed everything but the frame rail the serial number was on. They couldn't change that because the service contract was for that serial number. Because of that one machine, at one affiliates site, CBS had to replace every computer at every affiliate. What forced the issue was me blowing up so often that their tech made the mistake of offering to trade me his test mule for mine. When he found it wouldn't run long enough to be used as a service fixture and the DEC folks in NYC couldn't fix it either, they replaced them all with an IBM industrial with an ARTIC card. >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- 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 > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) omnibiblious, adj.: Indifferent to type of drink. Ex: "Oh, you can get me anything. I'm omnibiblious." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
