[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Michael Kraemer]

Single Stage to Orbit schrieb:
> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 01:41 +0200, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
>>>One of the first things I noticed with NT4 was the general advice to
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>>boot 
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>>>into DOS for burning CDs.  That alone made me question its
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>>suitability 
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>>>for replacing those VMS systems.
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>>Until NT came along, people used VMS for burning CDs?
> 
> 
> Well, at the time there were only 386s/486s out there and these didn't
> have quite enough horsepower to let NT4 fly. With the later Pentiums,
> NT4 worked very well indeed. 

Not quite the point. The OP mentions CD burning as a benchmark
for the quality of VMS vs WNT. If memory serves me right,
CD burning wasn't all too common on either platform by the time
WNT4 arrived (1995/96 ?). Towards the end of the 1990s,
it became more popular, but I can't remember anybody using
his VMS box for this task. So the comparison is a bit moot.

I think the DOS recommendation arose from the fact, that
CD burning should not be interrupted, otherwise it would fail.
One way to ensure this is to allow just a single process
to run. I remember similar recommendations even for Linux:
the iso to be burned should reside on a local disk rather
than being NFS mounted, to avoid network latency.

So all this has more to do with the oddities of CD burning
rather than OS quality.