[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 12:35:09 AM UTC+13, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <1ae749de-d462-4c18... at googlegroups.com>,
> lawren... at gmail.com (Lawrence D_Oliveiro) wrote: 
> 
>> On Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 7:01:22 AM UTC+13, Simon Clubley 
>> wrote: 
>>> FUSE filesystems come with performance limitations on Linux. 
>> 
>> They work well enough for NTFS, for example. Given that Linux 
>> already runs on higher-performance hardware than anything VMS can 
>> manage, I doubt the penalty will be noticeable. ;)
>
> Do people use FUSE NTFS on Linux for serious work, on which their 
> organisations' finances depend?

I would imagine yes, at least during the transition away from Windows servers. Would you entrust mission-critical business functions to an OS that can only handle 26 drive letters?

> It does not seem like a great idea to me, 
> after painful experiences with the reverse situation, running an NFS 
> server on Windows NT.

Microsoft have never been good at coexisting with standards it did not invent ...

> They need to be able to transition to a commercial-grade VMS on x86-64 
> before they're forced to drop VMS and thus stop paying VSI. So VSI need 
> to take the route from here-and-now that produces a commercial product 
> most rapidly. 

Precisely my point.

> They have been engaged in porting the existing VMS codebase for just over 
> seven years, and have it working fairly well. The time to consider 
> producing an OS based on a different kernel was in 2013-14; switching to 
> that strategy now would require considerable time to get caught up to the 
> current position.

There is a saying, that the best time to start doing something is always ten years ago. The second-best time is now.