[Info-vax] What would be involved in moving RMS into kernel mode ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/9/2023 8:06 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-05-07, Gary Sparkes <mokuba at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, May 5, 2023 at 8:17:02?AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> It will be nice to get a proper production release of VMS so that we
>>> know for sure, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen this
>>> year. :-(
>>> Simon.
>>
>> Isn't that what V9.2 is? :)
> 
> No. Regardless of what the VSI marketing division would have you believe.
> 
> VMS is not production-ready until it is built using the final optimised
> compilers.

That sounds like a weird criteria to me.

Production readiness should not depend on where the
software build and the level of optimization that is used.

They key metric should be robustness. And based on
what has been posted here and in VSI forum, then VMS 9.2
is pretty solid. There are some reports about problems
in DECWindows and development tools, but the core
OS seems to be rock solid. I don't think I have seen anyone
post about system crashes.

And performance reports indicate adequate performance (as fast
or better than Alpha and Itanium). We do have a suspicion that
performance could be improved a bit by an optimized
native build, but "expected room for improvement" does
not mean "not production ready".

Arne