[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 3/24/2012 7:28 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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. :-)
>

Off with his head!