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

[Dave Froble]

On 12/5/2021 11:40 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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

Those who can, do, those who can't, teach ...

> and practitioners of the trade)

Definitely not this one ...

> 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.

That is an issue with multiple arguments, both for and con ...


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