VMS is finally dead

[eek]

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.

[NotAllThere]

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...

[stek]

VMS still my favourite....

[OwlHoot]

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.

[eek]

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

[mudskipper]

Mr ms is still gainfully employed doing VMS support.

[SimonMac]

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.

[administrator]

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

[eek]

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.

[AtW]

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?