[HECnet] discontinuance of VMS

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> wrote: Damn! I work in federal govt and we have numerous (3 digits) VMS hosts world-wide that never gave us any trouble (especially compared to windoze). Guess well have to suffer more critical system failures in the future. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 5, 2013, at 8:45 PM, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 06/05/2013 08:44 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: This just came in from a friend of mine: "Ric Lewis at HP sent out a letter basically saying VMS is dead. Support up through 2020, but 2016 is the last sale of VMS- supported hardware." Now, of course, "will only be sold for 2.5 more years and will only be supported for 6.5" doesn't exactly say "dead" to me; it says "WILL EVENTUALLY BE dead", but still, this does kinda suck. But it's awesome that it lasted this long. From 1978 until 2020 is a great run in this industry. And I'll be running it, God willing, well after that. (if I'm still breathing!) I do hope those who have sources (or at least, source listings) will be able to preserve them. (hint hint) Nudge nudge. Wink wink. Say no more. The world of real computers thanks you. HP: Hopelessly Pathetic. Exactly. How the mighty have fallen. Bill and Dave are rolling in their graves. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA Hello! Don't worry about it. Microsoft said that it would no longer do anything with DOS some time ago. It's still orderable, but only in an embedded capacity. I believe some people have gone ahead and made use of it outside of that capacity. The other problem is that this is going to further foul up the agency that thinks it helped in getting me my apartment. They run their entire establishment on a colony of them. (And badly.) They were at one point doing it on the VAX. That was done properly. Then they switched over to Alpha, almost okay. Then probably to the series that makes use of the Intel abomination. Let's just say it isn't pretty. At least they are aware of the problem, but they are stuck with it...... ---- Incidentally Dave we aren't blaming you for this one. We are however doing so for a guy named Murphy. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."