[Info-vax] Hoff's Boot Camp report available

[IanD]

On Friday, November 25, 2016 at 12:47:48 AM UTC+11, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <561c9cb1$0$8242$b1db1813$145976f0 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 
> 
> > However, I wouldn't so quickly dismiss graphics and I would prefer to
> > see VSI saying they are going to listen to customers and potential
> > customers for what the priorities should me. This is more "politically
> > correct" and doesn't close doors that could possibly pan out as being
> > very profitable.
> 
> VSI has said that they would support the on-chip graphics, so I can 
> still run DECwindows under CDE.  :-)  Is it worth trying to compete in 
> high-end graphics?

Compete in the high end workstation market? No point going there IMO

Compete in the really high end, as in the HPC camp with GPU farms, that's been won by the linux camp mostly and the HPC camp buy eco systems, not just an OS in isolation

If VSI is willing to extend OpenVMS to be a hybrid OS with GPU's making up it's compute offerings, then maybe but I doubt they are going to be in a position to do this for a very long time

There's even work being done on bringing back vector processing into the IT picture! Didn't the Vax have some support for vector operation support?

It's the synergy of having access to all these technologies that add's value. 

VMS has got a lot of work to catch up on in the areas it abandoned long ago but at least we are moving forward - gotta be grateful for this at least :-)