[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[bill]

On 8/29/2023 3:18 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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.

Not really.  VMS has always been notoriously slow with I/O and I assume
that's what Simon was hinting at.

> 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.

You are forgetting the overhead of the drivers and any underlying O/S
code that has to be called to do it.

> 
> 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.

I think it was just a subtle poke in the ribs for VMS.

bill