[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[Tom Linden]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:35:33 -0800, <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Jan 18, 1:17 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> http://logikalblog.com/2009/01/17/hp-ux-and-ms-windowsfail/
>>
>> It isn’t really a surprise to anyone who knows anything about
>> technology. It is only a shock to those missguided souls who listen to
>> that marketing firm known as The Gartner Group. Recently the Shanghai
>> Stock Exchange announce it will be replacing its current HP UX trading
>> engine with a next generation platform developed completely on
>> OpenVMS.
>>
>> NSR
>
> Interestingly the item also says "A brand new twin roll steel mill
> being built just outside of Hong Kong is going on-line inside of 18
> months. OpenVMS will run it."
>
> And Windows would ruin it, sooner or later. Seriously. I used to work
> with a company that made control systems for steel mills, and with end
> users in steel and paper rolling plants, with VMS in the roller
> control loop, and response times in the low tens of milliseconds. Try
> doing that with Windows (I have, albeit not with rolling mills, and it
> doesn't happen). In a rolling mill, be it steel, paper, whatever,
> mistakes, hiccups, or even downtime of any kind can be very expensive,
> in terms of equipment damage and/or lives lost.

A number of steel mills still run VAXen for process control and a lot of  
that
code incidentally was written in PL/I.  We have one customer that converted
to Alpha about 4 years ago.  Last I heard Mittal was still on VAXen

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