Want to move from 2nd Line to Server work

[gables]

I was an expert on PathWorks, DECNET, LAT, TeamLinks at the time. We had two VMS clusters, mixed architecture, shared boot disks, VaxStations with 19" monitors, VAXELN embedded VAX, DEC bridges, routers and brouters, repeaters, vampire taps, thick ethernet, PowerStation FORTRAN77, this was c. 1992, all gone now.

Happy days, nuclear power station.....

You've just listed pretty much my skill set at the time; I worked for DEC from Oct 1989-Oct 1993 based at Enterprise House, High Holborn in the network management team, and I then took on the role of implementing Pathworks and supporting the PCs that came in, we even had an Apple, still kept my foot in the network management team as well. My first contract was based on DEC Pathworks in Brussels, then after that a company at Harefield where we added a Windows NT 3.51 server running MS SQL Server on a DEC Alpha - got me into Microsoft infrastructures that contract.

[stek]

You've just listed pretty much my skill set at the time; I worked for DEC from Oct 1989-Oct 1993 based at Enterprise House, High Holborn. My first contract was based on DEC Pathworks in Brussels, then after that a company at Harefield where we added a Windows NT 3.51 server running MS SQL Server on a DEC Alpha - got me into Microsoft infrastructures that contract.

Memories!

We had NT 3.51 too on Alphas running the FX32 Intel emulator for PowerStation I think, can't remember if there was a native Alpha port. You can see the roots of VMS in NT, it was Dave Cutler who moved from DEC to MS to build it I believe. Did a 2001 - HAL-IBM - VMS-WNT.......

Also both VMS and Windows still have a PAGEFILE.SYS from memory....

[gables]

Memories!

We had NT 3.51 too on Alphas running the FX32 Intel emulator for PowerStation I think, can't remember if there was a native Alpha port. You can see the roots of VMS in NT, it was Dave Cutler who moved from DEC to MS to build it I believe. Did a 2001 - HAL-IBM - VMS-WNT.......

Also both VMS and Windows still have a PAGEFILE.SYS from memory....

Pretty sure we were running a native Alpha port. Wasn't the rumour at the time that when Dave wrote WNT it's so called WNT as it was his vision of what VMS should become so they chose the next letters in the alphabet after VMS?

Yup, pagefile.sys still there.

Such fun

[LondonManc]

So, OP, this is the level of experience that you're up against. Fancy your chances?

[stek]

Pretty sure we were running a native Alpha port. Wasn't the rumour at the time that when Dave wrote WNT it's so called WNT as it was his vision of what VMS should become so they chose the next letters in the alphabet after VMS?

Yup, pagefile.sys still there.

Such fun

I'm gonna fire up the HP RX6600 in the garage, it's running HP-UX 11i with HP Integrity VM and a few OpenVMS 8.4 instances on it, Hobbyist licences, great fun. When I installed VMS in the VM's I'd totally forgotten most of the VMS stuff, but it comes back quickly, thanks to having done it for 10 years, albeit 20 years or so ago....

I bought the box (£150) to get up to speed again on VMS, since I was in for contract that need skills in 'AIX, Solaris VMS' so I though - w00t! Turns out it was mean to be 'AIX and Solaris VM's'. Bugger.

Ironically role was at the same nuclear power station, now being decommissioned, really fancied it for nostalgic purposes!

[gables]

I'm gonna fire up the HP RX6600 in the garage, it's running HP-UX 11i with HP Integrity VM and a few OpenVMS 8.4 instances on it, Hobbyist licences, great fun. When I installed VMS in the VM's I'd totally forgotten most of the VMS stuff, but it comes back quickly, thanks to having done it for 10 years, albeit 20 years or so ago....

I bought the box (£150) to get up to speed again on VMS, since I was in for contract that need skills in 'AIX, Solaris VMS' so I though - w00t! Turns out it was mean to be 'AIX and Solaris VM's'. Bugger.

Ironically role was at the same nuclear power station, now being decommissioned, really fancied it for nostalgic purposes!

Well, did you fire it up?