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- From: bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Plans for mixed Alpha/VAX cluster with common system disk?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.194818.5851@ais.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:48:18 GMT
- References: <01GQSBYNA64Y9I497E@KVI.nl> <1992Nov12.224853.23999@engage.pko.dec.com>, <1ehl8tINNdfp@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC
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- In article <1ehl8tINNdfp@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov19.125053.5849@ais.com>, bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:
- >>On the other hand, I don't think this will be that big a problem in
- >>practice -- that's the way network file systems have worked in Unix
- >>for years without anyone complaining much about it. Each architecture
- >>just gets its system binaries from different places, & the users have
- >>to fend for themselves.
- >
- > On the other hand, you've NEVER been able to move executables from one unix
- > system to another. Frequently you can't even move some of the source code
- > without putting in conditional code. On the other hand, until Alpha, one of
- > DEC's slogans was
- > VMS is VMS.
- > An image that runs on one VMS system runs on ANY VMS system at the same
- > version level, and non-privileged code almost always will continue to
- > run after an upgrade. Not so any more.
-
- :-) :-) :-)
-
- If you really believe that unconditionally, I have a bridge in Brooklyn
- that's for sale cheap ... better hurry before someone else gets it.
-
- :-) :-) :-)
-
- Bruce C. Wright
-