[Info-vax] Console optiosn on x86

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2015-04-30, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> On 15-04-30 16:59, Bob Koehler wrote:
>>
>>>    Sometime after VMS is ported to the x86, if the market for it
>>>    actually grows, and VSI wants to improve that growth, then it's time
>>>    to get rid of SYSGEN and make everything dynamic and automatic.
>> I have no objection to the reduction of various performance and memory
>> allocation parameters once the kernel adjusts them dynamically.
>>
> 
> Careful, JF.
> 
> One of the nice things about VMS is that you can impose hard limits
> on resources consumed in order to keep runaway processes under control.
> 
> While there's a good deal of potential for that mechanism to be updated
> I would not want to see it replaced with a purely automatic system
> without any manual overrides if the situation called for it.
> 
> I was just looking for some structure to the parameters instead of just
> having a monolithic global single level space with all the parameters
> dumped into it.
> 
> Simon.
> 

Careful Simon.

The weendoze registry appears to have some structure, ... though I doubt 
I'll ever figure it out ....

Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it ....