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Interesting, the guy is 3 years younger than me, and I'm too young to have worked through the minicomputer era. I very briefly had a job where I had to do some

Interesting, the guy is 3 years younger than me, and I'm too young to have worked through the minicomputer era. I very briefly had a job where I had to do some account administration that involved a VMS machine among others, in 98, and that's it. I do find those machines and VMS very interesting, so I can understand the enthusiasm. In any case, it's interesting to see people deep dive into these topics who don't have a nostalgic past association with them.

ngcc_hk 3y ago
“ I work as a kernel engineer at VMS Software, Inc., and I am one of the architects for the port of the OpenVMS operating system to the x86 processor architecture.” he just happen to be in the right place at the right time with the right skill set.
ivolimmen 3y ago
I had the same thought. I am 2 years older but never worked on those kinds of machines. I have never met anyone that worked on non-x86 machines but then again; most people I meet are younger. I did work on a OS360 once for 2 weeks.
- cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  No non-x86? Really? You must have worked with SPARC machines in the early part of your career, no? I had one (Sparcstation) at my desk, 1999, 2000 and all my work deployed to a cluster of Solaris SPARC machines. My first (non-hacked) Unix shell account was on an HP-UX machine in my sister's electrical engineering lab that she let me log into (thanks sis). And my roommate had a hot sexy DEC Alpha box. And of course there were personal machines like PowerPC and 68k Macs, and I owned a 68k Atari ST, and 6502 VIC-20, etc. There was actually a fair amount of diversity up until about 2005, 2006 or so when x86 just finished eating everything and Apple was the last holdout and then switched to Intel as well. But minicomputers and VAXes generally, they were goners before the mid-90s.
JPLeRouzic 3y ago
OpenVMS, the OS for Vaxen, runs on Intel's Itanium processors since 2001. Recently it was ported to X86-64.

ngcc_hk 3y ago

“ I work as a kernel engineer at VMS Software, Inc., and I am one of the architects for the port of the OpenVMS operating system to the x86 processor architecture.” he just happen to be in the right place at the right time with the right skill set.

ivolimmen 3y ago

I had the same thought. I am 2 years older but never worked on those kinds of machines. I have never met anyone that worked on non-x86 machines but then again; most people I meet are younger. I did work on a OS360 once for 2 weeks.

cmrdporcupine 3y ago
No non-x86? Really? You must have worked with SPARC machines in the early part of your career, no? I had one (Sparcstation) at my desk, 1999, 2000 and all my work deployed to a cluster of Solaris SPARC machines. My first (non-hacked) Unix shell account was on an HP-UX machine in my sister's electrical engineering lab that she let me log into (thanks sis). And my roommate had a hot sexy DEC Alpha box. And of course there were personal machines like PowerPC and 68k Macs, and I owned a 68k Atari ST, and 6502 VIC-20, etc. There was actually a fair amount of diversity up until about 2005, 2006 or so when x86 just finished eating everything and Apple was the last holdout and then switched to Intel as well. But minicomputers and VAXes generally, they were goners before the mid-90s.

JPLeRouzic 3y ago

OpenVMS, the OS for Vaxen, runs on Intel's Itanium processors since 2001. Recently it was ported to X86-64.