[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-07-28 01:12, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/27/2023 1:08 PM, bill wrote:
>> On 7/27/2023 8:46 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2023-07-27 02:05, bill wrote:
>>>> But now I have to wonder why they didn't just continue development of
>>>> the 10 and 20.
>>>
>>> Do you really want to open up that wound again? :-D
>>
>> I would love to see what the performance would be for any of these
>> processors made with today's tech.  I think even without growing
>> memory size they would be more than adequate and probably a lot
>> better than some of the Windows Servers running applications today.
> 
> The CPU business has become a very skewed market due to the
> cost structure.
> 
> Gigantic fixed cost (billions of dollars for research and fabs)
> and relative small variable cost (silicium, labor, sale etc.)
> make low volume CPU's non-competitive.
> 
> VAX, Alpha and Itanium was all killed. It seems rather likely
> that the 10 would have gone the same way.

Even more so, since in addition to it also being a niche CPU compared to 
the mass market CPUs, it would be more efforts to port a lot of pretty 
standard software because of the "odd" word size and addressing.

   Johnny