[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-02-05, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Paul Sture wrote 2014-02-05 12:54:
>> On 2014-02-05, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a different suggestion. All you who once moved from RSX to VMS.
>>> Welcome back. I promise to support RSX for many years to come. :-)
>>>
>>
>> Is TKB still as slow as ever?
>>
>> <ducks> :-)
>>
>>
>
> At the last what-to-do-now meeting at HP-Connect, there
> was a guy running RSX-11M professionaly. As he said, RSX
> run 25 times faster (emulated) today then on the fastest real
> PDP ha had used and the SAN disks used by RSX was 1000 times
> larger then actualy needed by the applications... :-)
>
> So, I guess that yop can run TKB way faster today then
> what you was used to on real PDP hardware... :-)

Having seen how fast shadow copies and merges can complete on emulated VMS
systems I can believe this.

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Paul Sture