[Info-vax] VMS-update NL dec2015 - downloads

[Neil Rieck]

On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 2:31:58 PM UTC-5, Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 5:57:42 AM UTC-5, Gerrit Woertman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The presentations from last December VMS Update in the Netherlands are downloadable from:
> > http://vmsconsultancy.com/index.php/en/?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&catid=2&Itemid=101  
> > 
> > best regards,
> > 
> > Gerrit Woertman
> > CTO OpenVMS BGSoftware/VMSConsultancy
> > OpenVMS Ambassador
> 
> Thanks for posting this stuff.
> 
> Neil Rieck
> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> Ontario, Canada.
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html

Lots of good stuff to wade through but here are a couple of things that jumped out at me.

1) In the last presentation (LAN Performance) it is stated that the LAN DRIVER can run at 85% of line rate whilst the TCP/IP only runs at 12% of line rate. Does anyone know why TCP/IP would be so poor because VSI claims 90% is possible.

comment: this makes perfect sense to me on a NIC not expecting other kinds of packets like SCS

2) The latest VSI roadmap ( http://vmssoftware.com/pdfs/ ) indicates that VSI will publish OpenVMS-8.4-2 in March-2016. Will HPE continue to release consolidated patch kits for 8.4 on Itanium -OR- will HPE be supporting their current customers by supplying VSI binaries in some sort of cross-licensing scheme?

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html