[Info-vax] System parameters (and a marketing suggestion), was: Re: What Will Drive More OpenVMS Adoption?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/6/2021 10:20 PM, abrsvc wrote:
> It would seem to me that the cost to update VMS to remove the
> parameters would be more than VSI wants to pay.  Why remove them,
> make them arbitrarily high (or low) such that they are effectively
> "not there".  Why make all kinds of source changes just to remove
> something that has little overhead?  Do the values change over time,
> yes.  It is difficult to make those changes, NO.  Are changes made
> frequently, NO.  Seems to me that this is one case where "if it aint
> broke..."

It would be hard to justify removing them as a separate project. But if
some code needed a major overhaul for other reasons, then they could be
ripped out.

> Haing the flexibility to alter how the system uses resources will
> always benefit someone somewhere.  I would rather have control than
> not.  But I have had the pleasure of using this system for 40 years
> and know it well enough to know how to use those controls
> effectively.  Yes, in the hands of people that don't know better, bad
> things can happen, but the same can be said of other areas too.

Old VMS'ers knows about this stuff.

But for any new VMS'ers it is just something that looks unnecessary
complicated.

Arne