[HECnet] OpenVMS on VAXstation 4000/60

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-10-03 17:00, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> writes:

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Mark Wickens wrote:

On 03/10/2013 03:01, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:


  Sweet! :-)



I'm thinking I'll stick with VMS 6.2.   With patches.

I like trying appropriate vintage VMS for the machines. It's weird how the
subtle differences creep in.
It's obvious at 6.1 how much TCP/IP, for example, is a 'bolt on'. Not
required for the OS. DECnet and underlying clustering protocols working just
fine on their own. Happy days.

I like appropriate vintage OSes for systems, too.   6.2 also seems a bit
lighter.

Lighter???

FWIW, you'd be much better off running the latest and greatest on your VAX
hardware to take advantage of the performance features contained within it.
The VAX processors, even in the latter generation VAX systems, are not very
fast by today's standards.   If you believe that every little bit helps, then
you'd be running V7.3 to get every little bit of help you can get from VMS.

I remember when VMS V5 came out. It was a total dog. I think DEC started to work on improving performance in V6, but I would not be surprised to learn that V7 is much better for performance than V6...

	Johnny