Re: Moving From ProTools to Linux? Good or bad?
- From: "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:20:01 -0800
"Randy Yates" wrote...
(Scott Dorsey) writes:
VMS had some good points and some bad points.... the heavyweight
filesystem
was a great thing for commercial applications because the filesystem
itself
did all the database work. On the other hand, it was a pain in the neck
for scientific computing because you would generate a text file and it
would be variable length record or maybe fixed-length-null-padded or
maybe
stream_lf or maybe some other format. And when you FTP'ed it to another
machine it would be a still different format on the other end.
FTP? You didn't need to FTP. VMS had the ability to access files
from other systems with the node::device syntax:
node::device:[root.][directory-name]filename.type;version
Yeah, as long as you were working VAX to VAX. Once you left
DEC-land it wasn't quite so seamless. I had to develop some
rather arcane software to get data from my lab HP network onto
the big ethernet "thick-LAN" and into the VAX where it could
be data-warehoused and analyzed.
Not exactly related anecdote:
When the corp IT organization was just getting started, they didn't
have any servers on our campus to host the cc:Mail databases :-((
So we created some file shares on one of our VAXen to host their
stuff. They played pretty fast and loose in those days (they are a little
better today) and would re-boot a server just to see if it would fix a
problem (who cares if any users have files open, etc.!)
So one day someone from the corp IT help-desk calls me and says
"We're having a problem with the ALCCM03 database. It is hosted
on one of your VAXes, can you reboot it for us?" I responded as
deadpan as I could manage: "The fab-support servers aren't scheduled
for a re-boot until the Christmas warm-down. Would you like to hold?"
(it was mid-May). They choked and said, no, they would think of
some other way to resolve their problem.
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