[HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?

[Steve Davidson]

The VAX-11/750 was (is) a DOG!   4.7 probably ran ok on that system.   5.x
not so much.   My office machine was a MicroVAX-II/GPX (dual head) with
16 megs of memory.   I still have that machine - I was able to take it
home when I left DEC.   The 3600's ran just fine.

Both the UVAX-II and 3600 class machines ran fine standalone or, as part
of a cluster.

-Steve


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[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
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  I tuned and tuned.   I'm pretty good at tuning VMS, but I 
never could get it back to pre-5.0 speeds.   Of course it sped 
up a lot in later releases as you said.   The last I ran in 
production was 5.4.

  Our hardware was a VAX-11/750, a MicroVAX-II, two 
MicroVAX-3600s.   The first two machines were cleared for 
classified processing, so upgrading them to newer hardware 
would've been a years-long process.   They're probably still there.

                          -Dave

On 12/23/2012 05:58 PM, Steve Davidson wrote:
Tuning IS everything...

That said, V5.0 was (is) slow, but 5.5 is not.   I ran it on 
VAX-11/780, VAX-11/782, VAX-11/785 and 8000 class machines. 
The ONLY 
complaint I ever had was disk space (or lack thereof).   
Remember that 
this was a development environment in DEC at ZKO (Spitbrook Rd, 
Nashua, NH) and those users wanted the fastest at all times - no 
excuses!   Again, tuning IS everything...

-Steve

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On 12/23/2012 05:44 PM, Steve Davidson wrote:
While the 4.7 system is good,   personally,   I would go with
a version
5 system.   V5.5 or V5.5-4 would be my choice.   It has so 
many more 
capabilities and toys/tools!

  But oohhhhh soooo painfully slow compared to v4.7.   You wouldn't 
believe the complaints I endured from my users on Monday after 
spending all weekend doing an upgrade to 5.0.
They loved me before that!

                              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA



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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA