[Info-vax] api for ncp

[calliet gérard]

Le 30/07/2021 à 22:19, Stephen Hoffman a écrit :
> On 2021-07-30 18:31:04 +0000, abrsvc said:
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>> J-stars went to alpha from Motorola a long time ago.  The alpha was 
>> able to complete data load, computation AND display in less time than 
>> the Motorola computation and  display only IRRC.
>>
>> There are a number of different certifications at multiple levels.  I 
>> have been involved in federal certifications of software programs 
>> running VAX software on emulators, so yes there are still 
>> certifications for VAX today.
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> JSTARS: "Our latest central computer replacement program upgrades the 
> current computers with powerful, advanced technology running Linux - 
> delivering a quantum leap forward to the mission system."
> 
> https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/northrop-grumman-awarded-17-5-million-contract-for-fifth-generation-upgrade-of-e-8c-joint-stars-central-computers 
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> If OpenVMS VAX or even VAX/VMS works for y'all, stay there.
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> But do expect to pay ongoing and increasing costs for avoiding upgrades 
> or avoiding porting (from VAX/VAX to OpenVMS x86-64, or from OpenVMS VAX 
> to Linux, etc), right up until management decides otherwise and orders a 
> port, or orders a replacement.
> 
> If y'all aren't keeping your own stuff current on OpenVMS, and keeping 
> your apps ~competitive across the available choices, y'all are headed 
> for trouble anyway. Trouble which has a habit of sneaking up.
I understand better from what point of view you speak.

I agree with you that nowadays the most important thing is to be 
competitive, and to pay the lesser possible for things. It's a sort of 
evidence to survive todays, and all of us, computer scientits have to be 
the more agile to cope with that.

On my job here, I'm just a very old man: I try to make programs which 
can do usefull, or even necessary things. And I work for even older men 
who had decided some day that what had been truly certified had to go on 
as it was certified.

I'm wondering what you are thinking about obsolescence, for your washing 
machine or your television. Do you think it would be better we change 
them each year? I think washing machine sellers would think it is a lot 
better. But I don't think so. It is not at all the same domain, but what 
I try to explain is that there are contexts where the goal is: not to 
change anything, because of x constraints. There are domains where the 
certification is about human live protection, for example, and the 
concept of competitivity is not adequate.

Do you like Mozart? And do you prefer interpretors who play Mozart as it 
is written, or the ones who improvize? - I do like Jazz, however, so the 
question is opened.
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