[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 02:56 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
>>> For applications that didn't rely on special hardware,
>>> the transition from VAX to Alpha was largely uneventful
>>> for VMS.  For ELN, the migration was to VxWorks, IIRC.
>>> I used VAXELN, but I didn't do any realtime on the Alpha.
>>
>>    Huh?  VxWorks from WindRiver Systems?  Did DEC sell and/or support
>> VxWorks?
>
> I think so, but then again I did say "IIRC".  I haven't done
> any realtime since VAXELN.

   I still can't wrap my brain around the concept of doing realtime 
processing on a machine with the interrupt latency of a VAX.  I love 
'em, but quick to service interrupts they ain't. :-(

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
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