Best practices led to short term Itanium
More than 10 years ago, the Gartner Group guided Alpha and Tru64 users toward a new hosting server. By 2009 […]
Emulated 3000s are the cream of this crop
The Dairylea Cooperative was among the first of the North American 3000 emulator users to testify about making the choice […]
How MPE/iX Influenced Itanium
Hewlett Packard’s legacy computing business took a quantum leap with its first RISC designs. After a challenge from Digital to […]
Chicken first, or egg: co-development of a legacy OS
A technical advantage from the DEC world places VMS as the first operating system designed before the chipset that it […]
Old hardware stays on OpenVMS, MPE duty
It’s been 16 years since a new HP 3000 rolled off a Hewlett-Packard manufacturing line. The last Alpha system shipped […]
Itanium fades from HP’s futures
Designed as a successor to the Intel x86 chip family, Itanium has breathed its last gulp of ordering air at […]
Determining Migration Urgency
Managers who control legacy systems hear often about migration. Although it’s a dynamic choice, migration happens on a timeline that […]
Working virtual will be OpenVMS first x86 assignment
The Early Adopter Kit (EAK) of the 9.0 OpenVMS will debut the first x86-based version of the OS. That EAK […]
Intel’s power a lure for legacy engines
Work is well underway to get OpenVMS to the Intel x86 line. Hewlett Packard has no part of that work, […]
VSI updates OpenVMS roadmap host plans
VMS Software Inc. (VSI) has posted a roadmap PDF file that defines current plans for VSI support and release of […]