[Info-vax] ImageMagick for VMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <747cc7e9-c355-484b-b876-45a935891cf5 at googlegroups.com>,
fhsjvl at gmail.com writes: 

> > There was a thread on this a while back.  I've used it on a non-VMS 
> > system and (at least that version of) it does what I need.  It is 
> > apparently available for VMS.  Does anyone know what the latest version 
> > for VMS is and where to get it?  Does it build more or less out of the 
> > box?

> ImageMagick is very good for creating thumbnails indeed. It is very good for lots of things: interactively, in programs, in scripts, in batch jobs, etc.
> You need joukj's excellent open source page: http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html
> He has executables available as well.

Is this the latest, greatest ImageMagick, or at least the latest, 
greatest for VMS?  If I'm installing it for the first time, I might as 
well get the best version I can.

How does performance between VMS and other OS's compare for machines 
with the same SPEC rating or whatever?  In other words, is the VMS 
performance much worse (or much better) than one might naively expect?