[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 23-02-2011 08:52, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<4d646c33$0$23765$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=<arne at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
>>
>> Some of these systems (telecom) are embedded, which are not really
>> an area where VMS has been present at all, but other are
>> regular servers that could in principle run VMS - they just
>> don't for the same reasons that many other systems does not
>> run VMS.
>>
>> I would expect VMS presence in telecom to be focused
>> around: RDB, Oracle, ACMS, Cobol etc.. BOA stuff.
>
>     For decades, we had a contributer here telling us how the telephonic
>     switching systems used by MCI ran on VMS and several attempts to port
>     it to UNIX failed miserably.
>
>     I don't know if any switches still run on VMS, but VMS certainly has
>     been present there.

OK. That is new to me.

Did they build their own boards for the HW interface?

Arne