1 Dec
1999
1 Dec
'99
8:39 a.m.
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Remember the positive things you're saying are more
about the OS, than
about the hardware. Although you still have to have stable hardware. Get
a modern Alpha, and you can have both OpenVMS and Speed. Of course I'm
wondering how fast a VAX in the 20-30 VUPs range feels compared to a slower
(ie affordable) Alpha.
I haven't run any direct timings, but my 3100/80 seems much more responsive
than an Alpha 3000/300LX running VMS v7.2.
I've heard rumors of at least one cluster with an
uptime measured in years.
Me, I'm only at 18 days, but then I just put the system into production,
and most of the time there is only one machine in the cluster (yeh, that
doens't make a lot of sense).
A former place of employment had uptimes in excess of 2 years on a pair of
very heavily used 11/750s running VMS v4.7. Ridiculously long uptimes aren't
rare with VMS systems.
-Dave McGuire