iamcamiel

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by iamcamiel 8y ago
I agree wholeheartedly :-) Incidentally, I have 9 Convexes at home: https://vaxbarn.com/index.php/43-project/641-the-convex-comp...
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
For those unfamiliar with OpenVMS clusters, here's an excellent write-up: http://www.availabilitydigest.com/public_articles/0306/openv...
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
Close. Macro-32 on x86 will use a lower-level interface to the same LLVM backend used by the other languages.
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
The Commerzbank case (datacenter near twin towers, contingency site in Rye, NY) is well documented: http://www.availabilitydigest.com/public_articles/0407/comme...
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
There's also the later (since 2003 or so) OpenVMS technical journal: http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/journal/
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
About a year ago, all of these were scanned from the paper originals. Available as PDF - WITH figures - from http://www.dtjcd.vmsresource.org.uk
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
Yes, you can still get hobbyist licenses from HP for OpenVMS: https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548 Note that some fields that are not marked mandatory should be treated as mandatory, esp. the one
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
Thanks! I have some videos online of presentations I did at last year's OpenVMS Boot Camp. Some with diagrams :-) My apologies for the sometimes poor audio quality. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwebt4CzDP_hT2r
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
That's a fairly old one, IIRC it dates from the 8.4-1H1 release, or May 2015. The team is considerably larger today.
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
I see lots of questions about who uses OpenVMS. In general, places where downtime and security breaches are frowned upon, as well as markets where VMS has had a long-time presence, and where moving away doesn't solve any problems they
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
Nonstop has already been ported to x86-64 some years ago. It runs fine there - with better performance than it did on Itanium.
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by iamcamiel 9y ago
This isn't quite correct. What was - and still is - made available to customers willing to pay for it were listings, generated by the compilers, not the original sources. There are more bits and pieces besides LMF that are excluded, so