From: Sergey Oboguev <[email protected]> To: Dennis Boone
<[email protected]>, SIMH <[email protected]> Subject: Re:
[Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
VMS team had to make design choices within the constraints of the state of
compiler technology, hardware technology/costs, and the requirements of
market competitiveness.
Looking back, it is very clear that VMS designers went to extreme lengths
to ensure a system runnable very efficiently on a resource-constrained
hardware.
Yes, we had a /780 with only 256 KB of memory. One Friday
afternoon after the service
window would have been closed by the time somebody could get
out to our
location, a memory board died. I diagnosed the problem, and
pulled one of the
memory boards. Wrong one, pulled the other one, and the
machine came back
up. One of our users had a BIG batch job to run over the
weekend, a huge
finite element simulation. Well, amazingly it ran on 128 KB
of memory!
Jon
_______________________________________________
Simh mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
