[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Rich Alderson]

kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

>> So VMS is a "mainframe" once again ? (At least in job adverts) :-)

> If it's not 36 bits it's no DEC mainframe.
> --scott

At the 1989 DECUS Symposia at which the VAX 9000 was touted as "DEC's First
Mainframe" (which DEC's marketing department had declared in the announcement),
former members of the Large Systems SIG (by then reconstituted as the Legacy
Systems Working Group of the Site/Management/Training SIG) recreated the
(in)famous "I ain't afraid of no VAX" VAXbusters t-shirt for the 25th
anniversary of the 36 bit line (PDP-6, announced March 1964, first product ship
June 1964), as "I ain't afraid to take RISCs".  On the back, there was a list
of all the 36 bit line, and "DEC's FIRST MAINFRAMES".

My t-shirt was on camera at the VAX Magic session...

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