[Info-vax] VMS internals design, was: Re: BASIC and AST routines

[Dave Froble]

On 11/25/2021 4:24 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <j0ac3aFojqmU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 11/25/21 2:20 PM, Arne VajhÞj wrote:
>>>
>>> Those running VMS today are mostly those without an easy way off
>>> VMS.
>>
>> I would really like to know what people could be running on
>> VMS on an Itanic that would be so difficult to move to a
>> totally different system.  Any applications are almost
>> guaranteed to be written in an HLL.  Just what is it that
>> they are doing on VMS that can not be done on another
>> system?
>
> Rdb.  Sure, if you use standard SQL, you could port it to another
> database without much trouble.  But there is also RMU for things such as
> backups and unloads.  Yes, can be done in another way.  Any Turing
> machine can emulate another.  :-)  But those who have worked with Rdb,
> especially those who can compare it with other databases, know how good
> it is.
>
> Clustering.  Real clustering.
>
> The two together.  The database is open on all nodes in the cluster,
> processes running on all nodes.  It works.  Lose a node?  Reconnect to a
> generic interface and continue.
>
> Good documentation.
>
> Built-in file versions.
>
> EDT.  :-)
>

Sorry Phillip, but none of your arguments really matter.  Perhaps disaster 
tolerant clusters.  I doubt those are the majority of current VMS users.

What matters are the current applications.

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