[HECnet] OpenVMS on VAXstation 4000/60

[Hans Vlems]

He may be ROTFL because of the 6.3 reference :)


Van: Cory Smelosky
Verzonden: maandag 7 oktober 2013 01:19
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] OpenVMS on VAXstation 4000/60


yOn Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:

> Daniel Soderstrom <snaggs at mac.com> writes:
>
>>
>>> =20
>>> Lighter???
>>> =20
>>> 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=20=
>>
>>
>> VMS 3
>> 0.9 million lines of code
>>
>> VMS 5.4
>> 6.5 million lines of code
>>
>> VMS 7.1
>> 25 million lines of code
>>
>> I'd like to go back to 5.5H4 and avoid the bloat from OO programming. I was g=
>> iven advice previously that 6.3 is best for old VAX's.=20
>
> OO! ROTFLMFA0!
>
>

OpenVMS may be written in about 8 different languages but I'm fairly sure 
none are OO...except MAYBE the few C++ bits according to Wikipedia.

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