[Info-vax] Baremetal emulators, was: Re: Alpha emulator for OSX

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> Bob Koehler via Info-vax
> Sent: 08-Feb-16 1:24 PM
> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> Cc: Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org>
> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Baremetal emulators, was: Re: Alpha
> emulator for OSX
> 
> In article <n9abjh$c5s$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> >
> > I don't know how much it might be used in real-time nowadays, but
> VMS
> > certainly have realtime properties and capabilities in a way that Unix
> > systems do not.
> 
>    I know sites that are using it.
> 

Including numerous mission critical manufacturing process control systems 
(steel plants, paper plants etc.)

When we did a big IT divestiture (57 paper plants across NA) a few years 
back, we were explaining to their process control folks about the issues 
we believed we were going to run into with their IP naming and domain 
schemes and how this would impact their mission critical automation
systems.

They just laughed and said they were not using IP, but rather something
called DECnet.

:-)

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com