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

[David Froble]

clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

Some of us think in forward chronological order, not reverse.  It's like top 
posting rather than bottom posting in an email.

I'm happy with oldest first.

>> 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.