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As an old time OpenVMS user (on VAX DECstations first and on AlphaServer later) I'm looking forward to this. I doubt it will ever come even remotely close to a
by laurentdc 10y ago
As an old time OpenVMS user (on VAX DECstations first and on AlphaServer later) I'm looking forward to this.
I doubt it will ever come even remotely close to a "mainstream" OS, but Alpha to x86 is a much better migration path than Alpha to Itanium.
And yes, there are still many OpenVMS installs out there in the wild, from airport logistics to assembly lines, so this may make sense from a financial standpoint (versus a complete software rewrite for Linux/AIX/whatever) - provided they can market it well enough to the old users.
- chx 10y agoDon't forget nuclear plants running PDP-11/VMS until 2050. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_...
- _kst_ 10y agoIt's not entirely clear from the article, but I don't believe the PDP-11s are running VMS. As far as I know VMS has never been ported to the PDP-11.
- laurentdc 10y agoYeah, they're likely running RT-11 or RSX-11. I wonder if the hardware is original and they simply have plenty of spares, or if boards are rebuilt with discrete logic or FPGAs/CPLDs as they break down.
- dboreham 10y agoThe article is about PDP-11 computers (16-bit, 1M max memory, from the 1970s) which never ran VMS (runs on 32-bit VAXes with 4M+ memory from the 1980s). I don't know why the author mentions OpenVMS in the Updates section because it isn't mentioned anywhere in the article body.
- kjs3 10y agoVMS never ran on the PDP-11. That article is talking about 2 different things (running PDP-11s and HPs stance on VMS).
- SixSigma 10y agoHard to find a comment by you not in oblivion but I'm trolling for nobody : Former NSA staffer and famous whistleblower, William Binney, says the DNC hack was not done by Russia but by US Intelligence. http://investmentwatchblog.com/nsa-whistleblower-says-dnc-hack-was-not-done-by-russia-but-by-u-s-intelligence/ http://investmentwatchblog.com/nsa-whistleblower-says-dnc-ha...
- kjs3 10y agoA troll is a douche no matter if he's piggybacking on a banned user or has the stones to put his post above board. Which you don't.
- SixSigma 10y agowhat ? make youself clear
- djsumdog 10y agoI remember learning about nuclear power plants and VMS back when I was in university. I was told they were used for the nuclear sensor networks though.
- akg_67 10y agoI personally worked with VMS/VAX/Alpha based systems for nuclear power plant simulators, process control for petrochemical, plastics, chemicals oil & gas, semiconductor facilities till 2002. Still get requests for consulting primarily on system/program conversion projects from VMS/Fortran variants to Windows/Unix/C variants.
- tkinom 10y agoNo stuxnet, less worry about someone's USB key from home might infect the computer. :-)
- pvg 10y agoNerdnit, I don't think DECstatations were (or were ever called) VAX. They were MIPS-based machines and I don't think they ever ran VMS. There was VAXStations, though, which did.