[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[gérard Calliet]

Le 04/01/2019 à 03:07, Richard Maher a écrit :
> On 4/01/2019 2:17 am, Henry Crun wrote:
>> On 03/01/2019 19:19, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <mn.1bac7e31e941b93e.104627 at invalid.skynet.be>, Marc Van 
>>> Dyck <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> writes:
>>>> gיrard Calliet has brought this to us :
>>>>> Le 02/01/2019 א 02:31, Richard Maher a יcrit :
>>>>>> On 31/12/2018 4:08 pm, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <q0bsng$t88$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher
>>>>>>> <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My real point is that I'm just sick of all these nostalgia junkies
>>>>>>>> saying "Without a DEC keyboard I can't play Star Tek properly 
>>>>>>>> :-(" pr
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No.  How many years have people lost because they never learned 
>>>>>>> to type
>>>>>>> properly?  If one can type properly AND use the keypad (not just in
>>>>>>> EDT), a huge amount of time is saved.  Of course, people who 
>>>>>>> can't type
>>>>>>> properly won't care about the keypad.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep. Even by my shoddy standards my post was unintelligible. 
>>>>>> Started my New
>>>>>> Year's eve celebrating pretty early.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "I'm too old too learm Windows" (tou should DCL fans will love
>>>>>>>> PowerShell).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No.  Life is too short to mess with Windows.  Or Linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I take my hat off to everyone/anyone who's been able to earn a 
>>>>>> living in
>>>>>> the last 10 years IT with just VMS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I did.
>>>>
>>>> I did too. I started my career with VMS in college in 1980, and never
>>>> left it since. I never touched a single Unix or Linux system, and
>>>> I'm just a simple, straightforward MS Windows end user. And it looks
>>>> like the next five years I have in front of me to finish my
>>>> professional
>>>> career will not be any different. How's that ?
>>>
>>> Good for you!  My money comes in from VMS.  I use Linux and Android, but
>>> nothing really for anthing that brings me money.  WEENDOZE?  Useless!  I
>>> have one rocket altimeter that requires its data communication/download
>>> software run on WEENDOZE.  It's nothing but problems, problems, 
>>> problems.
>>> I will not purchase any product that has a WEENDOZE only interface and I
>>> am quite sorry I purchased this one particular altimeter.  I have never
>>> has a need for WEENDOZE and as soon as I replace this rocket altimeter,
>>> I will never have need for it again.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Me too, more or less.
>> Started on PDP-11 (RSTS 6? IIRC)
>> Went to a VAX 730 as soon as we got one.
>> Working with VMS since except for a three-month hiatus between being 
>> fired by HP for reaching mandatory pension age, and being rehired by 
>> HP as a contractor at a client's site.
>> Still there, working part-time. Turned 75 this year so that's probably 
>> my last job.
>> (When I started I was told 'it's a two year project' - that was four 
>> years ago...)
>> Linux at home, though.
>>
> 
> Congratulations all!
> 
> Just curious. How many apart from Brian are developers and how many get 
> paid for "Monitoring" backups etc.
> 
> I guess I should've qualified my hat-tipping to developers (and not VSI 
> people)
I mainly organize ports from VMSs to VMSs (VAX to simh, Alpha to EmuVM, 
Alpha to Itanium). And develop some more fashioned interfaces with what 
I can use with VMS, sometimes Java Frameworks.

The most funny I have done is a back-port from Rally to DECForms & 
Cobol, developping semi-automatic translation via Ruby, Xslt and Scala. 
Rally was not available on Itanium, and they choose going back to their 
main tools (DecForms and Cobol) a critical but sole Rally application 
when they went from Alpha to Itanium.

Next year I'll improve our built of GNAT Ada on Itanium, and get part of 
my earning on training young people on VAX/VMS 5.5 for project having to 
run on the exact same configuration until 2035.

Next next year I'll have to hire lot of young people to port all the 
french users of VMS to x86 VMS :)

Gérard Calliet