[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-02-15 kl. 16:46, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> On 2/15/22 10:16, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <j71r42Fh9vsU1 at mid.individual.net>,
>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe, but the push seems to be for virtualization and I saw a number
>>> of OpenVMS job announcements that seemed to be production floor systems
>>> which probably can't virtualized.
>>
>> Why not?  There are reasons to virtualize systems on-prem.
>>
> 
> I guess it depends on how you actually communicate with the
> devices on the floor.  When I think of production floor systems
> I think of cables between running machines and computers.
> Probably my PDP-11 past seeping through.
> 
> bill
> 

Our VMS production support system only talks over the network.
Could just as well be in a VM as on the current Alpha.