Re: Newbie's Oracle 9i impression: it sucks

From: George Barbour <gbarbour_at_csc.com>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 12:13:06 +0100
Message-ID: <3cef7168$1@pull.gecm.com>

"Syltrem" <syltremspammenot_at_videotron.com> wrote in message news:77sH8.1166$H67.7133_at_tor-nn1.netcom.ca...
> > The advantage of this (windows)
> > architecture is that it is superior in true multitasking.
>
> Hmmm!
>
> Just fell on this one and couldn't resist.
> How do you explain Windows is so much superior, when you have situations
> like:
> You're in Outlook reading youe email. You click on an URL in an email
> message, and while you wait for the IE window to open, you click back into
> Outllook to read your other emails, and it won't respond until IE finally
> arrives. That sucks and is in no way superior multitasking.
>
> I'm a VMS guy. I have 500 + users on my server and even when one of the
guys
> has an infinite loop in his program, it's hard to tell; the machine is
> slower a little bit, but there's no perceptible wait time. That's REAL
> multitasking. Process quantum has it that you'll get your share of CPU
even
> in such situations, and even though a program takes 1 hour elapsed to
finish
> instaed of 30 minutes when the system is very busy, a user running an
> interactive application will barely notice the system is slow (because it
> has so many users to serve).
>
> VMS forever. Nothing beats it.

Hmmmm...... didn't the guy who wrote VMS move to Microsoft and then write WNT? I'm sure I read that somewhere!?

hence,
H - I,   and    V - W
A - B,           M - N
L - M ,          S - T

or is this another one of those famous myths?

George Barbour.
P.S. I use - UNIX, VMS, WNT. Received on Sat May 25 2002 - 06:13:06 CDT