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In 2001, I was going from one Intel factory to another, teaching Nikon technicians about VMS, which ran on the Alpha stations Nikon was still putting into its s
by davidroberts 13y ago
In 2001, I was going from one Intel factory to another, teaching Nikon technicians about VMS, which ran on the Alpha stations Nikon was still putting into its steppers (big machines used to make computer chips). They switched over to Windows NT and Linux a few years later, but I'm sure many of those VMS-based steppers are still operating.
- vidarh 13y ago(Open)VMS was still being developed, sold and commercially supported at that time and several years afterwards, and HP still offers commercial support and made (so far) last release in 2010, so that's not so "ancient". HP also kept selling Alpha based hardware until at least 2007.
- driverdan 13y ago2007 or 2008 sounds about right for when the Alpha groups were shut down. My dad worked in the Alpha memory group and lost his job around then.
- stanmancan 13y agoI work for the largest telecommunications company in Canada and all 3 million or so of our customers are running on a few VMS servers
- ajross 13y agoI have it on good authority (actually I don't remember any of the details except that I found it funny) that routine configuration of various machines inside the most advanced semiconductor fabrication facility in the world was done via hand-carried 3.5" floppy disks as recently as last year. If it works, it works. The cost to "upgrading" something like this is staggeringly high when you factor in the likelihood that the change is going to break something.