[HECnet] OpenVMS on VAXstation 4000/60

[Cory Smelosky]

On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Tim Sneddon wrote:

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

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.


I think you'd be hard pressed to find any C++ in there.   Possibly in the
language RTL.   I know that GEM had a bit of C++ thrown in at the end of its
life, but it too is mostly BLISS.


I figured that much.   I knew none of the core components were OO. ;)

Although I'm late to the party on this thread, I can't agree more (as I
have said to Daniel in a private thread).   V7.3 on VAX is absolutely the
way to go, especially if you intend to use HPs TCP/IP package.   As for
Alpha I'd go with V8.3 and Itanium, V8.3-1H1.   As Brian pointed out V8,4
was the first release post off-shoring.   The work done for this release was
initiated when ZKO was being shutdown and moved to MRO, which too was
promptly shutdown and moved to India.   As someone who has used and observed
some serious issues with this release (which I believe Brian is too) I
would not recommend it at all.   It is my belief that that the goings on at
HP greatly affected the quality.

Regards, Tim.


I'd agree.   I've had better luck with 7.3 except for the teething problems from user error.   (Like installed products randomly disappearing from DCLTABLES...again likely user error)

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