[Info-vax] Ken, where r u now? Was: Elephants...

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In article <8185f029-7940-45da-aca3-66f7935a9bf7 at f1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, ken.fairfield at gmail.com writes:
>On Mar 1, 4:59=A0am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>[...]
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>> 1) Intel (they still use VMS in their fabs)
>[...]
>
>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.

I thought you were still at Intel.  What are you doing now?

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