[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:24:47 +0000, JohnF wrote:

> 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...

Hit by a Q-bus, I assume. :-)

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Paul Sture