In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (March Hare) writes:
> More interesting stuff.
>
> I logged onto Ocean to find more stuff in my mailbox.  After 2 crashes
> with mail under Ocean, I figured the safe thing was to SET HOST MIAVX1
> and read my mail.  Well, I forgot that I did that, and proceeded on
> as usual.
>
> The point is that it took me a while to realize it.  MIAVX1 actually
> runs faster that way (there are enough people logged on).  Is this
> an unexpected feature?
 
Hummm....at the risk of causing increased network traffice...this might
actually be.  When doing a SET HOST, the system uses one of the DECnet
protocols.  This is slightly more efficient than using TCP/IP.  I doubt,
though that you will see a significant increase in speed when doing this.
 
> Also, what is SEA?
 
SEA is the name of the workstation in my office.  It is replacing the
system called MIAVX6.  The purpose of this system is to provide a test
environment when implementing changes to OpenVMS.
 
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