[Info-vax] Anyone still around ? :-)

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 09:58:33 EDT 2019


On 10/9/19 8:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-10-08, Lee Gleason <lee.gleason at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>    I'm still around . I work mostly on RSX these days rather than VMS. I
>> never really liked any of the post-VAX architectures.
>>
> 
> In production use ?
> 
> If so, my initial reaction was surprise that RSX was still in production
> use. However, thinking about it, maybe that's not such a surprise as it
> may be used in custom embedded roles as part of a larger custom bit of
> hardware and the OS would only get replaced at the same time as the
> rest of the custom hardware.
> 
> If my guessing above is correct, are there examples you are allowed to
> share about where RSX is still in production use ?
> 

I have no hard numbers, but if I were to take a guess, I would say there
are probably as many if not more RSX systems still running in production
than VAX.  :-)

Too bad RSTS didn't fare the same.

bill




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