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HP brings OpenVMS to the SuperDome

HP brings OpenVMS to the SuperDomeToo tought to kill!Better than "just good enough".Stop rewriting history!!The first 64bit Alpha VMs systems were brought out by *Digital*! Porting to 64bit is nothing new, many of us did it then. We've been waiting for the rest of the world to catch...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Servers, VAXen, VMS, Superdome, HP OpenVMS, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2004-05-07

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An (Imaginary?) Hannaford Conspiracy

The regularity with which geezers like me see history repeating itself suggests some combination of memory influencing perception with an amazing continuity in the forces driving human behavior. Worse, our perceptions of what happened then may be wrong but influence our interpretations of what's happening during the perceived re-run anyway,...

Tags: Point-of-sale, Debit Card, Computer, IBM Corp., Hannaford, Data Breach, Linux, Financial Services, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Microsoft privacy guru's site hacked

Microsoft privacy guru's site hackedROTFLMAO !!!This one was priceless . How can Microsoft's Security Guru site get hacked ? Oh my all the MS fanboys claim that Microsoft products are so secure . "In a world without walls and fences , who needs windows and gates."How can this be? It...

Tags: Web servers, Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Construction, America Online Inc., Microsoft privacy guru, Microsoft Privacy, Microsoft Corp., operating system, attack vector

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

A piece of the Itanic story

A piece of the Itanic storyYou left out an important ancestor to this...VAX/VMS also pioneered a lot of the protections you mention, and these were carried forward into the Alpha family of processors. thus it really should be no surprise that OpenVMS has been ported to the ItaniumcheersAgreedYes, the earliest...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Processors, Itanic

Discussion threads 2006-02-24

The Pod: software issues

The Pod: software issuesBoth feet inIn a large corporation like company "F", the one-throat to choke paradigm is paramount. Even if the Java desktop stuff is half-baked, it makes sense to contract with Sun to do everything and use everything. Heck, we use half-baked or less stuff from IBM today...

Tags: Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, GNAT, GCC, VAX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Ada, software

Discussion threads 2006-01-04

AMD asleep at the wheel?

AMD asleep at the wheel?AMD needs new chiefsSounds like to many chiefs and not enough Indians. They need to hire 'outside' consultants to see through the smoke and the mirrors of ego's.;)Maybe AMD's PR Department Needs to Think DifferentlyActually I think AMD has made a remarkable improvement in the way...

Tags: 64-bit, Processors, hardware memory protection, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-08-16