[Info-vax] Decomissioning VMS... a sad day!

[Ken Fairfield]

On Feb 2, 2:38 pm, Bob Eager <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:45:01 -0800, Ken Fairfield wrote:
> > Cerner announced EOL of VMS some 2 yrs ago, IIRC. Current releases of
> > the application (Millennium) run only on AIX, HP-UX and Linux.
>
> MILLENIUM! It is (was) still going????????
>
> I wrote the PDL compiler and run time system for that. The USA staff at
> the time (Dun and Bradstreet) said a compiler wouldn't work, or give
> performance gains. I proved them wrong. Nice installable shareable
> runtime, tight code...I had fun doing that in my spare time and making a
> nice bit of cash.

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Likely a different Millennium.  Subject of the post
is Cerner Millennium, a follow-on to Cerner Classic,
both of which are Electronic Medical Record systems.

What was "your" Millennium?

   -Ken