Re: Living Computer Museum

2013-03-27 Thread Kurt Acker
After seeing Ian King present on the efforts going into preserving these systems at the last HillGang meeting... I am pleased to state that my family is looking forward to visiting this museum next week. Depending on how the rest of our week looks, we might just call this trip our Paul Allen tour

32-bit vs. 64-bit performance resource consumption?

2013-03-27 Thread Andrew Porter
We have a product one of whose components is written in C; on Intel Linux we've always built just 32-bit apps for both 32-bit 64-bit systems because there is little if any penalty for running a 32-bit app on a 64-bit system. Other hardware differs: Itanium for instance, when we supported HP-UX

Re: 32-bit vs. 64-bit performance resource consumption?

2013-03-27 Thread David Boyes
What is the situation with modern Z 9/10 hardware: should we change our scripts to build 64-bit or stay with 32-bit? The app is relatively small - let's say 1.5 Mb of memory for a resident set and modest CPU consumption - but a fully loaded customer configuration may have hundreds of

Re: 32-bit vs. 64-bit performance resource consumption?

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Troth
From a life-cycle management perspective, do what David said and go 64-bit. From a performance perspective, build both and MEASURE the results. (Of course, you'll be running on a 64-bit kernel in most cases, so getting a pure sample will be tricky.) On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Andrew

Destination z article: Don't Leave Your Successors Adrift

2013-03-27 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Don't Leave Your Successors Adrift Mentoring, training and documentation can keep mainframes humming http://www.destinationz.org/Mainframe-Solution/Trends/Mentoring-Training-Documentation-Mainframe.aspx -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver

Possible Game Changer

2013-03-27 Thread Ben Duncan
If this makes into ncurses / PuTty, think of the implications. We could GO BACK to a TRUE heavy server and just terminal emulators. GIVE the MainFrame a ULTIMATE server in this game, no more http APPLICATIONS (except for Web Applications).

Re: Possible Game Changer

2013-03-27 Thread David Boyes
You can already accomplish something similar with xrdp and desktop clients, or any of the dedicated terminals from Wyse or others that do RDP. If you want to see a working example, come to VM Workshop. RDP is well optimized for WAN use, and the hardware accelerators for WAN use all know how to

Re: Possible Game Changer

2013-03-27 Thread Ben Duncan
Yes am familiar with xrdp, but with this , no need to even have it. a TERMINAL / Emulator is all that is needed, no remote desktop, or anything of the sort. Ben Duncan - Business Network Solutions, Inc. 336 Elton Road Jackson MS, 39212 Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately

Re: Possible Game Changer

2013-03-27 Thread David Boyes
Yes am familiar with xrdp, but with this , no need to even have it. a TERMINAL / Emulator is all that is needed, no remote desktop, or anything of the sort. The rdesktop implementation running on the terminal IS an emulator. RDP consists of tile update commands sent to an application on a