[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 02/01/2018 09:00 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 6:24:32 PM UTC-6, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 02/01/2018 07:08 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>> You don't think a normal bright guy can pull out a hot swapable
>>> disk and put another one in?
>>
>> Possibly.  But what about the commands needed to integrate the new
>> disk into the shadow set?  I have admined numerous VMS systems as
>> well as more than a dozen other OSes and I couldn't do it without
>> the documentation.
> 
> For most of these newer things, the subsystem gets configured once during installation to present a LUN (or whatever the trendy name is) and only it knows how many spindles, what level of RAID, etc. You really do just put in a new disk and forget it.
> 

I thought we were talking about VMS in a small (read 5-10 employees)
shop.  Not SANS and high end RAID arrays.

bill