can you guess? wrote: >> can you guess? wrote: >> >>>> can you run a database on RMS? >>>> >>>> >>> As well as you could on must Unix file systems. >>> >> And you've been able to do so for almost three >> decades now (whereas features like asynchronous and >> direct I/O are relative newcomers in the Unix >> environment). >> >> nny, I remember trying to help customers move their >> applications from >> TOPS-20 to VMS, back in the early 1980s, and finding >> that the VMS I/O >> capabilities were really badly lacking. >> > > Funny how that works: when you're not familiar with something, you often > mistake your own ignorance for actual deficiencies. Of course, the TOPS-20 > crowd was extremely unhappy at being forced to migrate at all, and this > hardly improved their perception of the situation. > > If you'd like to provide specifics about exactly what was supposedly lacking, > it would be possible to evaluate the accuracy of your recollection. >
I've played this game before, and it's off-topic and too much work to be worth it. Researching exactly when specific features were released into VMS RMS from this distance would be a total pain, and then we'd argue about which ones were beneficial for which situations, which people didin't much agree about then or since. My experience at the time was that RMS was another layer of abstraction and performance loss between the application and the OS, and it made it harder to do things and it made them slower and it made files less interchangeable between applications; but I'm not interested in trying to defend this position for weeks based on 25-year-old memories. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
