[Info-vax] Goodbye VAX

[Don North]

On 2021-12-31 02:58, Simon Clubley wrote:
> Today is the last day for VAX systems unless you have a permanent licence.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Simon.
> 

Yes, my poor old VLC will lose it's brain tomorrow and become a boat anchor.


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