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Originally posted by Bunk View PostThat's one way to describe it. Another would be "like a half-decomposed zombie clawing its way out of its muddy grave"
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%SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eelsLast edited by Sysman; 31 July 2014, 22:30.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostHardly 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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Rumour has it he's involved in the new outfit.
Will be interesting to see how it pans out - there's a lot of VMS users still out there. Can't see many new customers taking it on though, and with all the uncertainty any IT manager worth his 6 figure salary will have already put plans in place to replace it over the next decade or so.
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I loved the way the book showstopper touched on VMS. Dave Cutler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If Digital listened to Dave VMS could still be live.
I remember seeing a VAX2 in the smithsonian - I remember that coming out. I was coding at RAE Pyestock then. National Gas Turbine Establishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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VMS: #I am not yet dead, I can dance and I can sing, I am not yet dead, I can do the highland fling#
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Originally posted by Bunk View PostThat's one way to describe it. Another would be "like a half-decomposed zombie clawing its way out of its muddy grave"
Nope, definitely a phoenix.
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Like a phoenix from the ashes...
VMS Software, Inc.
Coming soon!
VMS Software, Inc. Named Exclusive Developer of Future Versions of OpenVMS Operating System. - MarketWatch
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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.
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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
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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."
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Originally posted by eek View Posttop 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
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