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Not a surprise. There's a lot of that stuff around, on OpenVMS. There are new systems — yes, using BASIC on OpenVMS — being installed, too. There are new Itanium servers with suppo…

There are presently OpenVMS servers and clusters in production in a number of locations, and new configurations are being installed — primarily for existing applications, obviously…

Interesting article. Rather than arguing what can or cannot be done or what might or might not work, here's some code, and some history. Here's full-mixed-language programmable, lo…

For those interested in the old Burroughs stuff, the folks at Unisys have announced a hobbyist program for the ClearPath MCP Express systems: http://www.unisys.com/offerings/high-e…

FWIW, the top-end HPE SSD models are rated for up to 25 writes of the entire SSD drive, per day, for five years. The entry-level SSDs are rated for ~two whole-drive writes per week…

In no particular order... OpenVMS and NonStop (NSK) do not compete. Entirely different products and markets. VMS Software Inc (VSI) have licensed OpenVMS from HPE. They've not acqu…

From the FAQ: "A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there." Some will accept remote workers. There's also a Freela…

Thanks. re: "those days" — FWIW, those days are still ongoing. The latest OpenVMS release shipped out in June 2015, and the native port to x86-64 is underway.

While the term unikernel is fairly recent,the basic concept goes back a long time. One example of this general design is VAX ELN. The following is a brochure from the V2.2 release,…

Most recent NSA transitional recommendations are for 3072-bit asymmetric, and AES-256 symmetric. Details: https://www.nsa.gov/ia/programs/suiteb_cryptography/index.sh... For networ…

Google Groups has various options, one of which is a comparatively poor web-based front-end to Usenet. (Yes, there are still active Usenet groups.) Getting this right across multip…

You might be interested in Itanium and the IA-64 architecture, which has what is referred to as branch predication: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2001/cmsc411/projects/IA64-2... …

vim works fine on OpenVMS, as it's in use in some other OpenVMS windows right now. (But thanks for the reminder to upgrade to the most current — upgrades underway.) I'm not particu…

Careers and jobs and employers and technologies all come and go. Figure out what interests you yourself, whether you want to go somewhere or do something, and how you might get the…

For your own web servers and your own clients, use your own CA and your own certs.

Former EMS provider... The laws on whether ambulances must stop at red lights and stop signs vary by locality. It's almost always legally your mess if you don't stop at a traffic c…

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What's old is new... Unikernels are quite reminiscent of the VAXELN product from ~30 years ago; write the application code, link in the various services you need, and disk or netwo…