[Info-vax] Updated HPE/VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 Marketing Brochures

[David Froble]

Paul Sture wrote:
> On 2016-10-01, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> wrote:
>> Clearly, the best choice is to move to 8.4 (preferably 8.4-2L1), then
>> when x86-64 becomes available, do that transition. My personal
>> recommendation remains as it has always been, use the smallest viable
>> system to do the jump, use the small system to develop empirical
>> performance results to size an actual production environment.
>>
> 
> I rather agree on the "smallest viable systems to do the jump" aspect.

Also agree.

> I have too many times come across systems developed on the latest and
> greatest hardware which have resulted in user disappointment when run on
> the planned production hardware.
> 
> That still happens of course.  The app developer with lots of RAM, SSDs
> all round plus a fat internet pipe isn't going to see the bottlenecks
> experienced by either the home user or the large corporate who are
> running on systems which are several years old.
> 
> Of course, forcing your developers to work on old slow systems isn't the
> best way forward.  You can resolve this by ensuring that you have test
> systems which are reasonably close in spec to target production systems.

Paul, for some time now, at least for the things I do, there is no "old slow 
system", unless I'm on the VAX.  I'm using an AlphaServer 800, and it's way 
overkill, for development.  I don't even power up the EV6 systems most of the 
time.  I'm getting an RX2660 forced on me, and that will be overkill many times 
over, for development.

I can imagine some things that might make these systems work a bit, but so far 
haven't had to do any of that.