[Info-vax] open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes)

[Bob Koehler]

In article <9bf64ec3-2063-4e90-8d83-5bd22e90cd6a at bs5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> " one Ada compiler could run the tasks in parallel and another could
> run the tasks in sequence (asynchronously)"
> 
> Why wouldn't this be a *good* thing, as long as the results are
> identical? Portability is good, isn't it?

   There's the rub.  The results of a computation might be identical,
   but control systems are often order dependent.