VMS is finally dead

[eek]

Isn't that revealing top secret info given that Met Office is MOD?

top secret would be telling you the MOD opinion of Met office forecasts. The Met office is actually part of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills

[SimonMac]

Isn't that revealing top secret info given that Met Office is MOD?

Nope

Met Office: Fortran 90

[SimonMac]

top secret would be telling you the MOD opinion of Met office forecasts. The Met office is actually part of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills

WHS as of 2011

[AtW]

top secret would be telling you the MOD opinion of Met office forecasts.

I can probably guess it

[stek]

We had loads of it the Nuclear power station I worked on, mixed arch geo clusters networked CD drives you could remote install VMS from, 19" VaxStations with DecWindows.

This was 1995...

[amcdonald]

top secret would be telling you the MOD opinion of Met office forecasts. The Met office is actually part of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills

Shouldn't that be the Department for Business Offshoring and Deskilling ?

[mudskipper]

The letter doesn't sound quite as terminal as the article.

OpenVMS.org - OpenVMS Community Portal, News and Info

" We are committed to providing you updates and support for the V8.4 OpenVMS operating environment through at least December 31, 2020."

[NickFitz]

Once had a conversation in the Bayshill Inn in Cheltenham with a chap who had a bunch of Fortran code for analysing low frequency radio signals. Didn't know at the time that it was the regular haunt of the GCHQ crowd.

Anyway, when he finds this, here's the info he was looking for: How To Create a FORTRAN DLL and Call It from Visual Basic

[darmstadt]

Nearly all of this: operations centre that I worked on was Fortran

[VectraMan]

I had to compile some Fortran recently. It was part of an open source library, that was part of an open source library, etc., etc., and it seemed quite exciting - I've never seen Fortran before. That was some GIS conversion routines.

As for VMS, at university all the science types used VMS, and all the computing and electronics people used Unix and rightly looked down on the VMS users. I took a functional programming course where the lecturer obviously took delight in basing all the examples on a vending machine - Vending Machine Simple as he called it.