[Info-vax] Just how old are we?

[alexey chupahin]

I was burn 1975, it seems I youngest :)

started at 198x
PDP-11 -> VAX -> Alpha ->Itanium and PPC Macintosh + x86-64 (oh yes...) Macbook
RT-11 ->RSX ->OpenVMS
......................->unix (4BSD, Venix, linux,freeBSD,macosx....)

 

среда, 3 февраля 2021 г. в 01:15:07 UTC+3, Jay:
> On 2/2/2021 3:56 PM, abrsvc wrote: 
> > On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 16:17:30 UTC-5, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: 
> >> Den 2021-02-02 kl. 21:51, skrev John Dallman: 
> >> 
> >>> I was born in 1961. 
> >> 1959. Worked with RSX and VMS since 1982. Not a single 
> >> workday since then without working on one of them. 
> >> PDP11, VAX and Alpha. No Itanium. Maybe x86, we'll see... 
> >> I work for a software toolkit supplier, who were 
> >>> providing their toolkit on VMS when I joined in 1995, and carried on 
> >>> until 1999, when VMS was dropped, and we carried on, supporting several 
> >>> UNIXes and Windows. So I've worked on VAX VMS and Alpha VMS, but never 
> >>> Itanium VMS. 
> >>> 
> >>> I did port the toolkit to Itanium Windows and Itanium HP-UX, but we had 
> >>> no market success with those and dropped them. I started reading this 
> >>> group when I noticed that VMS x86 had made progress. 
> >>> 
> >>> John 
> >>> 
> > 1958. Working with VMS since 1980 on a 11/780. Did a little on the PDP11 in macro, but my entire career has been VMS. 
> > Working on a system now that was last updated in 2000 with most of the code solid since 1994. Moving off VMS to PLC based controller systems. 
> >
> B 1954. Worked on 11/780, late 80s doing FORTRAN, then system manager 
> work on AlphaServers until 2008 when I went over to the dark side. 
> Retired Dec 31, 2016. They were so glad to get rid of me there were 
> fireworks that night.