[Info-vax] Goodbye VAX

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In article <07c5deb5-367d-415c-9dc9-bbe694e66998n at googlegroups.com>, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> writes:
>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.

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