[Info-vax] OT: Elephants Can't Dance

[ken.fairfield at gmail.com]

On Mar 1, 4:59 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> 1) Intel (they still use VMS in their fabs)
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Phillip Helbig mentioned the same thing in a separate thread
several weeks ago, and Michael Kraemer rightly questions
it in this thread.

The truth is you won't find *any* VMS running Intel fabs
(as in process control) after this summer, when the last
of the 200mm fabs close.  The 300mm fabs either came
up on Windows + HPUX, or have converted.

The "assembly/test" sites, and the offline analysis of
fab output, are likely (because I left about 2 years ago,
I can't say for sure) still on VMS, but it is just a matter
of time before those functions are moved off VMS as well.
There is no IA64 VMS running in Intel fabs, for example.

So I think we need to drop "Intel fabs" as being a
feather in VMS's cap: that's a train that left the
station a long time ago (actually, in about 1994
was it, when CQ Bob sued Intel?)...

    -Ken