[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/30/2023 9:04 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-08-29, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2023-08-29 22:27, bill wrote:
>>> On 8/29/2023 3:18 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> So? It just means that other systems might achieve higher rate of I/O
>> throughput than VMS on a specific piece of hardware. Nothing prevents me
>> from throwing faster hardware on the problem until I saturate the
>> network, no matter which OS I'm using.
> 
> Why would you waste serious money on extra hardware to overcome OS
> limitations instead of just using a more efficient OS for the task at hand ?

I think we need to know then what is meant by VMS "limit".

A) Is the limit what VMS can handle if enough hardware is thrown at it?

B) Or is the limit what VMS can do cost efficiently without any extra
hardware cost?

The original question was:

#                 I wonder what the maximum rate VMS is capable
# of emitting data at if it was using the fastest network hardware
# available.

I read that as #A.

Obviously #B is more relevant for what tasks VMS will be chosen
for, but that was not the question asked as I read it.

Arne