26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
10:54 p.m.
Not being from the Vax world, I wonder difficult it would be
for them to move them over to SIMH or CHARON emulators?
The savings in power & air conditioning alone would probably
pay for the new equipment in the first year. ;-)
T
27 Feb
27 Feb
7:07 p.m.
tiggerlasv at aim.com wrote:
Not being from the Vax world, I wonder difficult it
would be
for them to move them over to SIMH or CHARON emulators?
The savings in power & air conditioning alone would probably
pay for the new equipment in the first year. ;-)
Would it really be too expensive to move to OpenVMS/Integrity?
Peace... Sridhar
7:10 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
tiggerlasv at aim.com wrote:
Integrity is only an option if they have the source, right? I'm
imagining that they've got a bunch of VAX binaries from long-dead
companies... does VEST do VAX->Itanium?
John "doesn't really know much VMS" Floren
--
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Not being from the Vax world, I wonder difficult
it would be
for them to move them over to SIMH or CHARON emulators?
The savings in power & air conditioning alone would probably
pay for the new equipment in the first year. ;-)
Would it really be too expensive to move to OpenVMS/Integrity?
Peace... Sridhar
7:16 p.m.
John Floren wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Sridhar Ayengar
<ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
No, but VEST will go to Alpha, and then you can use AEST to go to IA64.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/integrity/transition/vax/app_tools.html
Peace... Sridhar
tiggerlasv at aim.com wrote:
Integrity is only an option if they have the source, right? I'm
imagining that they've got a bunch of VAX binaries from long-dead
companies... does VEST do VAX->Itanium? Not being from the Vax world, I wonder difficult
it would be
for them to move them over to SIMH or CHARON emulators?
The savings in power & air conditioning alone would probably
pay for the new equipment in the first year. ;-)
Would it really be too expensive to move to OpenVMS/Integrity?
Peace... Sridhar
28 Feb
28 Feb
1:13 p.m.
I think the problem is that their current software can't do what they
need it to do.
Moving to an emulator will only move the problem..they somehow,
apparently, need a new set of applications software.
-Bob
bbrown at harpercollege.edu #### #### Bob Brown - KB9LFR
Harper Community College ## ## ## Systems Administrator
Palatine IL USA #### #### Saved by grace
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John Floren wrote:
No, but VEST will go to Alpha, and then you can use AEST to go to IA64.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/integrity/transition/vax/app_tools.htm
l
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Sridhar Ayengar
<ploopster at gmail.com>
wrote:
tiggerlasv at
aim.com wrote:
Integrity is only an option if they have the source, right? I'm
imagining that they've got a bunch of VAX binaries from long-dead
companies... does VEST do VAX->Itanium? Not being from the Vax world, I wonder difficult
it would be >
for them to move them over to SIMH or CHARON emulators?
The savings in power & air conditioning alone would probably
pay for the new equipment in the first year. ;-)
Would it really be too expensive to move to OpenVMS/Integrity?
Peace... Sridhar
3:03 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Bob Brown <bbrown at harpercollege.edu> wrote:
Moving to an emulator will only move the problem..they
somehow,
apparently, need a new set of applications software.
-Bob
They need to dust off their wallet and hand over a ton of money to
Blackboard.
4:20 p.m.
On 28 Feb 2008 at 12:13, Bob Brown wrote:
I think the problem is that their current software
can't do what they
need it to do.
Moving to an emulator will only move the problem..they somehow,
apparently, need a new set of applications software.
If that's the case, then the article is very misleading. It spends
most of its text describing the measures taken to keep the "antique"
hardware going. If, in fact the problem is with the software, then
that's the thing at the root of the problem, not the VAXen.
Cheers,
Chuck
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