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

[Dirk Munk]

David Froble wrote:
> 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.

Really. I don't even know where to put those PCI and PCI-X adapters. The 
only new Itanium rack system that HPE is selling *and* is certified for 
VMS, is the RX2800. It doesn't have PCI or PCI-X slots........

I wonder is there is any Itanium system with PCI or PCI-X slots, perhaps 
this list of adapters was copied from the HP Alpha quickspecs for VMS 8.4??

Since VSI is only selling VMS for Itanium, I wonder if these PCI and 
PCI-X adapters should be listed at all.

>
>>> 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.