26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
3:52 p.m.
The Seattle Times is running an article about how the Seattle School
District is still using a VAX to do school assignments.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004203746_enrollment26m.ht…
26 Feb
26 Feb
4:07 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com> wrote:
The Seattle Times is running an article about how the Seattle School
District is still using a VAX to do school assignments.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004203746_enrollment26m.ht…
Hey, my university (Rochester Institute of Technology) still has two
VAXes and two Alphaservers, all running VMS, to do registration. Up
until about two or three years ago, all of our email was handled by
those machines too.
These people are probably thinking of switching over to Windows, too,
which is really sad. I think there are plenty of people at RIT who
would like to do the same, but there is no way they'll get anything as
useful as our VMS registration system.
John
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4:30 p.m.
On 26 Feb 2008 at 12:52, Alan Perry wrote:
The Seattle Times is running an article about how the
Seattle School
District is still using a VAX to do school assignments.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004203746_enrollment26m.ht…
"To keep tweaking the VAXes, district staff warned last week, is
risky and a waste of time. To replace them, however, likely comes
with a cost that made School Board members cringe: a delay of about a
year in putting the new assignment plan into action."
Surely, emulation is an option...and probably cost-effective.
Cheers,
Chuck
6:27 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 26 Feb 2008 at 12:52, Alan Perry wrote:
This might be a great proposal (a VAX Emulation system) for someone to
present to the Seattle School board. Seems that the talent is here in
this group, and someone who is a professional could do a nice job.
Certainly the cost to replace the system could be horrendous, and school
boards rarely have a lot of spare cash...can someone push VAX into the
21st century and beyond?
John :-#)#
The Seattle Times is running an article about how
the Seattle School
District is still using a VAX to do school assignments.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004203746_enrollment26m.ht…
"To keep tweaking the VAXes, district staff warned last week, is
risky and a waste of time. To replace them, however, likely comes
with a cost that made School Board members cringe: a delay of about a
year in putting the new assignment plan into action."
Surely, emulation is an option...and probably cost-effective.
Cheers,
Chuck
6:35 p.m.
At 03:30 PM 2/26/2008, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Surely, emulation is an option...and probably
cost-effective.
And probably has not been considered.
- John
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4:52 p.m.
The Seattle Times is running an article about how the Seattle School
District is still using a VAX to do school assignments.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004203746_enrollment26m.ht…
Hmmm... I wonder if this student assignment program is some sort of
expert system written in something like OPS5? It could be an
interesting project to convert it to something more modern.
5:07 p.m.
On Tuesday 26 February 2008, David Betz wrote:
It's much more likely that it'd just be replaced with some COTS* stuff
like Banner.
* COTS != cheap off-the-shelf.
Pat
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The Seattle
Times is running an article about how the Seattle
School District is still using a VAX to do school assignments.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004203746_enrollme
nt26m.html
Hmmm... I wonder if this student assignment program is some sort of
expert system written in something like OPS5? It could be an
interesting project to convert it to something more modern.
5:21 p.m.
The Seattle Times is running an article about how the
Seattle
School District is still using a VAX to do school assignments.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004203746_enrollme
nt26m.html
Hmmm... I wonder if this student assignment program is some sort of
expert system written in something like OPS5? It could be an
interesting project to convert it to something more modern. 
9:48 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com> wrote:
The Seattle Times is running an article about how the Seattle School
District is still using a VAX to do school assignments.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004203746_enrollment26m.ht…
Aren't those 6000s from the early 1990s. I may have to pay attention...
I have bought computer parts from the Seattle School District in the
past, very very cheap. Of course that was in the days of RA80s.
Paxton
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