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DateSun, 23 Feb 1997 17:02:49 -0800 (PST)
From"James W. Laferriere" <>
SubjectRe: swap space: an idea. Please comment.
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Riccardo Facchetti wrote:

> Hello,
> I was talking this morning at 2 a.m. with a friend in a pub (okay okay
> ... may be my mind was not so ... how to say it ... clear :)
> 
> We was talking about VAX and VMS. At some point he said something like
> that VMS is a strong OS. That never crash and never fails in giving
> resources to processes that ask for them.

	Riccardo,  Oh-Yes VMS can crash.  But it is really well known
	for just slowing to a -stop- because some system-mangler hasn't
	performed -any- system tuning.

	Usually this happens when the Pagefile gets full or if in my
	case I get 2-3 processes trying to utilize the same -very slow-
	device, and I get tired of waiting and stop one of the processes
	attached to that -very slow- device.  Then all hell breaks down.

> I don't know VMS (I just have an idea about its shell and I definitely 
> don't like it) but an idea enlightened me ... may be some sort of ethilic

	Too be perverse I do like the VMS shell, & by the way there is
	under 6.1 and above a Posix shell. If again the system-mangler
	has allowed its use as a shell.

> alchool burning on top of my beer glass ... bah :))
> But now, that I am (at least I think) lucid, I still think this may be an
> interesting idea.
... snip some nice ideas ...


 				Hth, JimL
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