[Info-vax] Goodbye VAX

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/31/21 5:58 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> Today is the last day for VAX systems unless you have a permanent licence.

Only if you run nothing but VMS.  Now, where was that copy og CP/M?

> 
> It was a good architecture for its time, but I doubt we will ever see
> something like it again. The world has moved very much to a 2-mode KU
> architecture approach (with operating systems designed to match) and
> also very much away from the CISC approach with all the complex
> instructions in hardware that VAX had.
> 
> Goodbye VAX and farewell.

Sorry Simon, but I am not getting rid of mine yet.

bill