[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:40:17 +0200, Michael Kraemer wrote:

> 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 ?).

NT4 didn't arrive until late 1996.  I got my first system in early 1997.
CD burners were still pretty expensive.

> 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.

OK, not a good comparison, but it did raise the question of NT's 
suitability for tasks where you can't afford to miss events.

> 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.

IIRC early CD burners didn't have much cache if any, and increasing this 
in later models took much of the pain away.

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Paul Sture