Tuning IS everything...
That said, V5.0 was (is) slow, but 5.5 is not. I ran it on VAX-11/780,
VAX-11/782, VAX-11/785 and 8000 class machines. The ONLY complaint I
ever had was disk space (or lack thereof). Remember that this was a
development environment in DEC at ZKO (Spitbrook Rd, Nashua, NH) and
those users wanted the fastest at all times - no excuses! Again, tuning
IS everything...
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 17:50
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?
On 12/23/2012 05:44 PM, Steve Davidson wrote:
While the 4.7 system is good, personally, I would go with
a version
5 system. V5.5 or V5.5-4 would be my choice. It has so many more
capabilities and toys/tools!
But oohhhhh soooo painfully slow compared to v4.7. You
wouldn't believe the complaints I endured from my users on
Monday after spending all weekend doing an upgrade to 5.0.
They loved me before that!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA