[Info-vax] SBB's

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kc1tg7$cl7$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> >> Now, as much as I low VMS, I (only) use VMS for things that VMS does well.
> >> Acting as a repository for the families files (sound, music, digital
> >> pictures and such) is *not* one of those, IMHO.
> >
> > What's wrong with storing .JPG files on a shadow set?
> 
> Nothing at all! I have a bunch of JPG's on my VMS server where
> my auction site automation tools are running. These JPG's are
> uploaded each evening together with the rest of the auction info.
> 
> But they are on VMS becuse my VMS *applications* needs them.
> The applications are a bunch of Python scripts, by the way.

For a long time, I have had "data" disks in my cluster.  In contrast to 
scratch disks, which are just for temporary files and where it doesn't 
matter if all files older than a short time are deleted, the data disks 
are for largish files which have secure copies elsewhere (CDs, DVDs, 
data sets from the web) or which can be regenerated (i.e. temporary 
files from one of my programs).  I have these disks anyway, and a web 
server.  Thus, why the extra effort to set up something else, when this 
works?  Does a web browser care if the file is served from a VMS system?

> My families photos (also similar JPG's from a stricly technical
> standpoint) are on our Netgear ReadyNAS boxes. Simply becuse they
> are a better solution for *those* JPG's (then VMS).
> 
> > Why are they better than a VMS solution?
> 
> Becuse of the ease with how wife and kids can connect and "use"
> that box. The VMS box is better for *my* needs.

My wife can connect to my web server from her iPad.  No problem.  
(Before she had the iPad, she used to read newspapers with Mozilla on 
VMS.  The iPad allows her to be more mobile, though the monitor isn't as 
big.  :-|  )

> > Of course, one has to compare hardware from the same time frame.
> 
> Why?
> I prefer to look at what is actualy needed now and what is
> available now.

I mean that it isn't fair to compare my decade(s)-old hardware in terms 
of performance with new PC hardware.  New VMS hardware is certainly 
faster than decade(s)-old PC hardware (probably by a larger factor 
than vice versa).