[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-08-29 19:25, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-08-29, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
>> On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> Very much FreeBSD here for some years, after decades first with
>>>> dec,
>>>> then Sun. Forms the basic of at least some proprietary offerings,
>>>> as
>>>> well as millions of embedded devices. Linux is still a unix,
>>>> and runs the majority of web sites of the world, so if anything,
>>>> unix has won the os wars...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, very much so. (And I can't believe Arne thinks the *BSDs have no
>>> serious users... :-) ).
>>
>> Netflix picked FreeBSD as it could chuck out data at 400GB/s. Linux was
>> not even close.
> 
> 10 years from now (assuming the economy hasn't collapsed by then :-) ):
> 
> 400GB/s ??? Is that all ??? Amateurs!!! :-)

Well. I have this friend of mine, who installed 40 Gb/s at his moms 
place in 2007...

> On a more serious note, I wonder what the maximum rate VMS is capable
> of emitting data at if it was using the fastest network hardware
> available.

What a weird question. VMS in itself don't have any limits. It's all 
always just about the hardware.
Some software might be able to squeeze more out of the same hardware, 
but just spin up faster hardware, and you'll get higher throughput. But 
any system will basically just be limited by the speed of the network 
hardware, if that item is fixed. You can't go above that. But there are 
no reasons why you wouldn't be able to get to that point.

These are the kind of questions that sometimes make me wonder if you 
know anything at all about computers. But then you do some other posts 
which clearly demonstrate that you do understand some stuff.

   Johnny