[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

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On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:27:42 +0100
hb via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> I have a rather old pc and the CPU wasn't the fastest when I bought it:
> Athlon X2 5050e	2600 MHz. I run simh V4.0-0 Beta on Linux with the
> emulator and the VMS disk on a usb (2.0) thumb drive.
> 
> Startup ($ RUNEMACS until the "Welcome to GNU Emacs" screen completely
> shows and immediately terminated emacs with ^X^C) takes 7-8 seconds
> elapsed time - reported by VMS image accounting. The screen is updated
> at once, no delay and I can't determine whether is painted from top to
> bottom or right to left :-)

I copied the system to the box I thought I had it running on and the
timings changed a little. Instead of the minute or two it used to take to
come up the above action now takes about 3 1/2 seconds.

> Opening a C source ($ RUNEMACS [.EMACS.EMACS212_3.SRC]DIRED.C with
> loading cc mode) and terminating emacs when the first source screen is
> shown with ^X^C takes about 19 seconds.

That now happens within a second or so once the editor is already open.

> Paging through the file isn't measurable, it takes less than a second
> per page (terminal set to 36 lines and 132 columns).
> 
> This isn't fast but it seems acceptable for my configuration.

Yeah this works great actually. I'm perfectly satisfied with the
performance running on fast hardware. Thanks a lot, this is great. Please
do get it out there for the other VMS/VAX guys. A good place to announce it
might be the SIMH mailing list. If you post something on comp.os.vms and
you want, I can forward to the SIMH list since I'm already subscribed.

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