In <[email protected]>, on 02/23/2010
at 11:24 AM, David Andrews <[email protected]> said:
>One of you Old Ones (and I'm thinking of Shmuel in particular) correct me
>on this, but didn't bare MVT have a horrendous core fragmentation
>issue?
VMS[1] had a horrendous core fragmentation issue; for MVT is was less
severe.
>My poor recollection is that HASP initiators essentially
>reintroduced "partitions" to MVT to help beat that problem.
No, But it did eliminate the need for multiple Reader and Writer regions.
Also, the execution batch facility helped alleviate the problem.
Prior to MFT II and HASP II, HASP also automated the control of partitions
in MFT, but I'm not going to ask you to believe just how bad the
facilities were; suffice it to say that the original MFT without HASP or
ASP was a nightmare.
[1] No connection to the DEC operating system for the VAX.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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