[Info-vax] [OT] Moore's Law dead within a decade

[Paul Sture]

In article <l2gm94$bdl$1 at news.albasani.net>,
 Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> JF Mezei wrote 2013-10-02 00:39:
> > On 13-10-01 18:33, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> >
> >> I am busy preparing for the handover of my job to HCL.
> >
> > Interesting. Of all the regulars here, you seemed to be the one who had
> > the most confidence in the future of VMS and safety of your job,
> >
> 
> That are two different issues. :-)
> 
> Now, I'm also an sub-contractor today. And HCL has not so far showed
> anyone with VMS knowledge, so the jury is still out, as they say.
> We'll see, the first face-to-face meeting will be in about a week.
> 
> This is a 30+ year old system with everything in swedish. Docs,
> source code comments, VT-screens, error messages and so on. Even the
> variable names in the Cobol source are in swedish.

That sounds like a good defence :-)

> > Sorry to hear of this. Good luck. And while I am still being told to get
> > a life, I hear many still have a life after moving on from VMS many
> > years ago.
> >
> 
> I'm 54 and having some reumatic troubles. I still plan to end
> my professional life when leaving VMS... :-)

Sorry to hear about the rheumatic troubles.

Time to start up comp.os.vms.health.and.suggested.remedies?

> Anyway, Monday and Tuesday I'll be at the Oracle and VMS
> sessions at Gothenburg, nice to "come out" sometimes. :-)

Have fun.

-- 
Paul Sture

IBM's Thomas J. Watson predicted a "world market for maybe five computers".
Given the way this whole Cloud thing is going, he might have been extremely
prescient.