[Info-vax] Pathworks or one of its descendants on x86

[Craig A. Berry]

On 2/22/18 6:45 AM, already5chosen at yahoo.com wrote:

> And I don't agree that performance does not matter. It only does not
> matter to a degree. When talking to appliance, it's probably o.k. to do
> it 2-3 times slower than other clients, but not 20-30 times slower.

Right. If I'm a developer using a remote development tool, I'm not going
to want to deal with the glacial speeds that were characteristic of the
old NetBeans port via its ftp or CIFS file sharing.

But the performance problem really comes in at least two flavors. If you
want to serve exotic native file formats to non-native clients, you're
going to pay for it with the RMS overhead that someone already
mentioned. But if just serving stream files to clients that don't know
or care about records, RMS really shouldn't enter into serving file
contents. If the drivers, the network stack, the CRTL, and the file
system get the updates they need anyway, then VMS really should be able
to function reasonably well as a general-purpose file server, though
probably not the most cost effective one.

But VCI 2.0[1] is no longer on the roadmap, so it remains to be seen
what sort of performance will become available and when.


[1] http://www.hp-connect.se/SIG/VSI%20TCPIP.pdf