[Info-vax] Life after Digital

[Neil Rieck]

On Nov 7, 6:21 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:

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>
> And from a personal point of view, VMS skills are a "legacy" liability
> and I need to acquire marketable Unix skills/experience.
>

I hear you. I recently did a job search in Waterloo Region and no one
was looking for OpenVMS (even though I know they use it at Toyota
Manufacturing and Home Hardware's Canada-wide warehouse). Everyone
wanted Linux or Solaris.

>
> Also, xserve gives me a 64 bit quadcore 8086 with quickpath which should
> last me a number of years and can be used to boot modern OS's including
> Linux or <cough> even Windows</cough>.   This technology isn't even
> available on IA64 yet and not even sure how many years before it is
> affordable.

You are correct about Windows but Linux runs on IA64

http://www.ia64-linux.org/machines/

It does seem like Core i7 is getting the lion's share of the
industry's attention.

NSR