Re: OT: VAX was Re: OpenBSD VAX

[Sean Cavanaugh <seanc@cginfo.sk.ca>]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Dave Taira wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Hugh Graham wrote:
> 
> > VAXen in particular are almost indestructible; it's likely many of these
> > machines will still be running ten or more years from now.
> 
> Indeed. I'm currently working with a VMS admin who did a lot of Y2K work
> for a bank, and was surprised to learn Compaq nee DEC had Y2K patches for
> VMS 5.1-2 (I believe). Current Version is 7.x. The reason is that there
> are apparently a lot of microchip fabs in the Far East running VMS on
> VAXen. DEC tried to get them to upgrade to Alpha, and they said no.

The University here was still using a few for the business units until
early this year. That's how I got ahold of a few.  

I seem to remember something about Compaq promising to support VAX
customers until 2010, so obvioulsy a LOT of people out there plan to keep
using these machines for a good long while.

Sean Cavanaugh - seanc@cginfo.sk.ca - http://www.seancavanugh.com
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