The Untimely Demise Of Workstations
Last month’s news that IBM would do a Hewlett-Packard and divide into two—an IT consultancy and a buzzword compliance unit—marks […]
Sourceforge harbors code for OpenVMS locking
OpenVMS experts are pointing to a new location for a tool to make locking a reliable resource for both Alpha […]
VMS to Raspberry Pi: Following MPE’s lead?
A new discussion on the OpenVMS newsgroup is kicking around the idea of running VMS on a Raspberry Pi processor. […]
Java steeps up Release 14 JDK, with 15 steaming up soon
Java, essential to the success of Solaris and the ability to write once, execute everywhere, has a Release 14.02 Java […]
This just in: COBOL is not dead
On the most antique Saturday Night Live shows, Chevy Chase reads fake news. With each broadcast he’d repeat this joke: […]
VMS open source work drives into summer months
The small band of OpenVMS devotees meets this Thursday June 18 to swap notes on open source work for the […]
SPARCstation 10 pushed Solaris onto desktops
Twenty-eight years ago this month, the first SPARC-based desktop computers were delivering multiprocessing for Solaris and SunOS. The month of […]
Legacy platform flies beyond its expert’s career
Out in the Pacific Northwest, the aircraft giant Boeing continues to build products. One part of the operation in the […]
Collaborating on tinkering connects SSD to legacy
Things didn’t go well when first trying to connect SSD storage with an HP 3000. By today, the solid state […]
Solid State Disk makes HP 3000 a solid legacy player
It’s an amazing number, 46 years. That’s how long John Zoltak has worked with a company that relies on HP […]