[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <00ABED1D.39A4359F at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <snn049-87o.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
> >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. :-)
> 
> or a UNIbus... or a BI bus... or an XMI bus... or a PCI bus...  :)

Don't forget the MASSBUS.  It strikes me (ha!) as being more MASSive.

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