[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 8:07:06 PM UTC-4, Dirk Munk wrote:
> clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
> > As promised......first week in September updates.
> >
> 
> A few things that I noticed:
> 
> Your slides say that VMS 8.4.2 supports 64 cores, however the Quickspecs 
> say 32 cores. I suppose the Quickspecs are wrong?
> 

Yes, the Quickspecs are wrong. 

> I had a look at Appendix A of the Quickspecs. The list of LAN adapters 
> starts with PCI devices. OK, it's better then ISA, but not much. Perhaps 
> you should divide the lists into modern PCIe adapters and legacy PCI-X 
> en PCI adapters, and start with the modern ones. It certainly would look 
> a whole lot better then starting with a list of antiques.
>

I'll pass your Quickspecs comments to those who update them.
 
> On the list of released BOE components I see a lot of very new releases, 
> but what is new about them? I can't find quickspecs....
>

I chose ship dates so you would know if you had the latest. It doesn't mean
anything has changed. Maybe I should add version numbers.
 
> You're also looking at PTP, the Precision (not Pression) Time Protocol. 
> I suppose that you need completely new LAN adapter drivers for this, 
> since PTP needs its own API with a NIC. However I suppose PTP could be 
> quite useful for systems for the financial world.