[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[JohnF]

onedbguru <onedbguru at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> >
>> > At some point, HP decided to not port to x86.
>> >
>> > Then, VMS experienced engineering team is fired and replaced by newbie
>> > programmers given 2 weeks of training.
>> >
>> > Looks to me that once HP decided to end of line its proprietary OS at
>> > same time as IA64, there was no point in keeping the experienced
>> > engineering teams since they wouldn't be needed for the port.
>> >
>> > I fear it may be too late to save VMS.
>> 
>> VMS has been dead, in some sense, for about thirteen years now!
>> 
>> I still have a couple of systems running VMS and I'll hang on to them.
>> I don't know that I'll DO anything with them, there seems to be very
>> little demand!
>> 
>> Face it.  If VMS is not dead, it's on "life support".
> 
> Sadly, I am not sure I would be that generous... Even though
> it still runs my home web server and offsite backups for a
> long-time customer who uses it daily - I am not sure what
> I will do when their DS10 dies as it has been running 24x7
> since 1999 when it replaced a MVII that ran for equally as long.
> The custom app was "migrated" via VEST because the developer
> did not appear to keep the entire app source code on the
> customer system and subsequently was hit by a bus
> and there was no good backup before the old system died -
> except for the executables and some of the source code.

Literally hit by a bus??? If ever there was a metaphor...
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John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )