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    VMS is finally dead

    Windows NT grandaddy OpenVMS taken out back, single gunshot heard ? The Register

    Thank .... for that. It should have been killed years back but I think there are still some Lloyds syndicate systems still using it.
    merely at clientco for the entertainment

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    OpenVMS also sports world-class clustering abilities, allowing a whole group of dissimilar machines to function as a single server, leading to uptimes of many years as individual machines can be taken offline, their hardware or even entire OS upgraded or replaced, then brought back up and to rejoin the cluster. A single cluster could contain mixed hardware architectures and mixed OS versions, allowing a level of flexibility no other OS has ever matched.

    What's not to like?

    Anyway, if it comes back, send for the VAXorcist...
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #3
      VMS still my favourite....

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        #4
        Originally posted by eek View Post
        Windows NT grandaddy OpenVMS taken out back, single gunshot heard ? The Register

        Thank .... for that. It should have been killed years back but I think there are still some Lloyds syndicate systems still using it.
        Hardly anything in IT seems to die when it should - Some crazy old diehards, no doubt with zimmer frames and beards down to their knees, are still using COBOL and Fortran.
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          #5
          Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
          Hardly anything in IT seems to die when it should - Some crazy old diehards, no doubt with zimmer frames and beards down to their knees, are still using COBOL and Fortran.
          Probably in that same lloyds syndicate code. I know it used COBOL they wanted me to learn how to write it and that was back in 89
          merely at clientco for the entertainment

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            #6
            Mr ms is still gainfully employed doing VMS support.

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              #7
              Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
              Hardly anything in IT seems to die when it should - Some crazy old diehards, no doubt with zimmer frames and beards down to their knees, are still using COBOL and Fortran.
              Fortran is still massively used by the Met Office in their data models.
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                #8
                Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                OpenVMS also sports world-class clustering abilities, allowing a whole group of dissimilar machines to function as a single server, leading to uptimes of many years as individual machines can be taken offline, their hardware or even entire OS upgraded or replaced, then brought back up and to rejoin the cluster. A single cluster could contain mixed hardware architectures and mixed OS versions, allowing a level of flexibility no other OS has ever matched.

                What's not to like?

                Anyway, if it comes back, send for the VAXorcist...
                I had a little linux box with over 1,000 days uptime afew years ago. I shed a little tear when I had to reboot it I cried even more when the disk failed two days later

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
                  Mr ms is still gainfully employed doing VMS support.
                  Probably about time to start looking for something else. In about another 15 years it will be dead.
                  merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
                    Fortran is still massively used by the Met Office in their data models.
                    Isn't that revealing top secret info given that Met Office is MOD?

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