[HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?

[Dave McGuire]

  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