[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Subcommandante XDelta]

Bill Gunshannon:
> In article <l7hv05$ulf$1 at dont-email.me>,
> 	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> On 2013-12-02, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf at star.enet.dec.com> wrote:
>>> As commercial policy did DEC, CPQ and HP sell non-terminating,
>>> immortal, licence PAKS?
>>
>> Well, we now know you have not managed any VMS systems because a VMS
>> system manager would never need to ask such a question. :-)
> 
> Even I knew the answer to that one!!!
>
>> Realising that did make me curious to know what your involvement in
>> VMS was/is.
>>
>> Are you a customer site programmer or did you work in VMS Engineering ?
>>
> 
> Or just a Hobbyist who likes to make waves.  :-)
> 
> bill

Dang! my inner NSA analyst has just advised me that I've leaked
contextual identifying data!

No, never been a system manager on the other side of the tracks.

Historically, I was a digit in some capacity.

Neither of the two members of the VLF are from VMS Engineering. That is
logically derivable from what we have not done; I will leave it to the
reader to think that through.

The better half of the VLF, Subcommandante BYPASS, has never been a
digit, not that that admission is giving the game away, it just narrows
down the field to about 4 billion - SMALLNUM.

Subcommandante BYPASS has a deep respect, admiration, and love for VMS
and all things DEC, however.

The above is all you will ever get to know about the VLF, our operations
cannot be compromised. As it stands I have been more conversational than
intended, with comp.os.vms.

The operating plan, was to very occasionally, raise the fist, transmit a
VLF Communique and then fade back into the woodwork. However Gerald
fronting up with his Swedish Vikings, had derailed the operating plan a
little.

Yes, I am a VMS hobbyist, one paradoxically, that does not have a
running VMS installation despite the VLF toolkit, for various reasons.
Though I do plan to build a heterogenous VAX/7.3 AXP/8.4 cluster at some
point in the near future.

You get to an age, you accumulate a portfolio of aches and pains, both
physical and emotional. Sure, there is the wife, the kids and the
grand-children to busy your days, but despite that panoply, you still
want something to give you a challenge, remind you that you are alive,
thus I am a VMS hobbyist.

Necessity dictates wave making of arbitrary amplitude.

Firing up the front end loader, pushing the proverbial up the steep
mountain incline, in futherance of preventing VMSs extinction and
rebooting the VMS ECOlogy.

Everyone needs a hobby.