[Info-vax] Goodbye VAX

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On Friday, December 31, 2021 at 7:36:48 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
I too still have mine up and running either V5.5-2 or V7.3 depending upon the disk set.
I no longer have the prototype MVII though. Still working on some 6210s for a client too.
Just created a short data conversion routine in MACRO32 since it was simpler than writing it in PASCAL.

Good times...