[Info-vax] What Will Drive More OpenVMS Adoption?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/5/21 5:52 AM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <61ac02f5$0$704$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, arne at vajhoej.dk
> (Arne Vajhøj) wrote:
> 
>> That sounds like a pretty crappy abstraction layer.
> 
> When you need the best performance you can reasonably get, using
> manufacturer extensions becomes necessary.
> 
> 
> John
> 


And yet, for at least the past 15 years, anytime I have brought
up a need for efficient programming I am told (by Professors
and practitioners of the trade) that it is irrelevant, "Just
throw more hardware at it!"  Wouldn't the same apply to using
non-standard extensions to get "the best performance you can
reasonably get"?  We're not running VAXen any more and we have
more than 12MB of memory.

bill