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I am slightly disappointed that the solution was not to run a VAX emulator. :)
by actionfromafar 2y ago
I am slightly disappointed that the solution was not to run a VAX emulator. :)
- Postosuchus 2y agoI don't think VAX emulators were the thing back then. :-) In fact, our target platform was a cluster of commodity DEC Alpha machines running an early version of RedHat Linux for AXP. I know for a fact, that we were the first system that employed Linux clusters in fintech.
- ggm 2y agoThey weren't but .. if you were doing it now QEMU and OpenVMS would probably be the natural approach.
- 0x445442 2y agoThis is what Ticketmaster did. Up until a few years ago, and it’s probably still the case, they heart of their reservation system was written for the VAX in the 70’s. When they had to make the hardware/OS switch, rather than port, the went to an emulator. Edit: spelling