[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 11/10/2022 9:51 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> But, that said, I miss commercial grade operating systems that are
>> database-centric with the filesystem and database being integrated.  I
>> think that is a good approach for commercial applications, what we once
>> called "ADP."  Perhaps the future isn't VMS but I would like to see some
>> of the concepts within VMS integrated into future commercial systems.
>
>How would "database-centric with the filesystem and database being
>integrated" look in real life?
>
>Like VMS index-sequential files (and its equivalence in the mainframe
>world)?
>
>Putting a file system on top of a RDBMS? (like Oracle and MS
>experimented with 20 years ago)


I was thinking the former, like VMS or MPE (although hopefully better designed
than MPE).  But now that you bring it up, the latter is a hell of an
interesting idea for a commercial data processing machine.

>> As software becomes more and more expensive, I think the need to have an
>> efficient operating system that provides database features in the kernel
>> becomes more important.
>
>Database in the actual OS kernel or just database shipping with the
>OS distribution?
>
>It is not uncommon to put application functionality in the
>kernel today, but I am not keen on the idea.

I think in the kernel.  Maybe not in the top ring, but in a ring below it.
I want fast database access, I want rapid transaction turnover, I don't care
necessarily about realtime operation or any direct UI other than for 
administration, or ever specifically making deadline.  I'm thinking of a 
specialized database engine.
--scott


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