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Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by IndrekR »

Development of F22 started in 1980's. Last VAX machines were manufactured in 2005. There is quite a lot of VME bus based legacy (but speciallized and working) measurement and test equipment still around. I have no involvement in the project, so can not tell for sure; yet would be surprised if any of this is part of the flight hardware.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by lallysingh »

IndrekR wrote: post #4

Development of F22 started in 1980's. Last VAX machines were manufactured in 2005. There is quite a lot of VME bus based legacy (but speciallized and working) measurement and test equipment still around. I have no involvement in the project, so can not tell for sure; yet would be surprised if any of this is part of the flight hardware.

Up until the mid 1990s similar machines (TurboChannel DECs) were required as personal workstations for my university.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by stickfigure »

aosmith wrote: post #2

Here's the backstory: http://web.archive.org/web/20100310163744/http://www.stsc.hi...

Wow. Reminds me of a joke my dad repeated to me many years ago:

Software saved the aerospace industry. Every other way of adding cost to an airplane also adds weight.

He spent most of his career at Lockheed and Rockwell.

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