Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: VM/370 security and performance Message-ID: <980@opus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 19:57:16 EST Article-I.D.: opus.980 Posted: Tue Dec 18 19:57:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 01:20:18 EST References: <6623@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 17 > 3) Maybe some system programmers in u-wiz ENJOY working between 2 and 6 AM > when there's a new version of the system to build, test, and install. With > VM, you do your work during the day in parallel with production use of your > machine. When the system works, you come in ONE night to put it in the > production machine and make sure it works there. True enough for the systems which run UNDER VM. However, as barry pointed out later in the same article, the once-simple VM has grown an unfortunate number of features and enhancements. SO, this means that you get to come in between 2 and 6 AM to work on VM. Don't get me wrong--there's still orders of magnitude difference in size between VM and the systems that run under it, such as MVS. You DO get some of the same benefits of a small kernel that you get (?got?) with UNIX. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Are you making this up as you go along?