Check it out, starting about 15 minutes in…
http://www.openvms.org/podcast/VAU-2007-07-17_10.mp3
Actually, openvms.org has lots of good VMS stuff on it. Check it out!
Archive for July, 2007
CHARON-VAX and CHARON-Alpha on OpenVMS Audio Update
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Ancient DEC commercials on YouTube and Google
Thursday, July 26th, 2007These are hilarious!
Here are some other DEC videos:
Spitbrook Road Engineers, part 1 (1990)
VAX in a room with no walls
Thursday, July 19th, 2007There’s a legend about a company accidentally walling-off a VAX server, and it continued to hum along.
It’s no longer a legend — I have found an eyewitness!
Keating Floyd (Keating_floyd-at-onebox-dot-com) is a consultant. He was visiting B&W Tobacco in Macon, Georgia in 1998 or so. The client was ripping out drywall, and discovered a VAX that no one knew about. It was still running and serving clients.
Sorry — no pictures available. And he didn’t know what application was running. But, hey, it was running VMS, for sure!
Happy Anniversary, VMS!
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007The VMS operating system first booted 30 years ago. And it’s still going strong!
The Operating Systems Handbook
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I came across The Operating Systems Handbook via a message in comp.os.vms. Here’s the link:
http://www.snee.com/bob/opsys.html
The author claims you can add “Working Knowledge of UNIX, VMS, OS/400, VM/CMS, and MVS.” to your resume after studying the book. There’s a chapter on VMS that’s a little dated, since it was written just as the Alpha was introduced, but still pretty handy.
If you love VMS, but need to talk to another OS, this could be useful, too…