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 […]
Open Source Call for OpenVMS gains traction
On May 21, the Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Call took place early in the USA day. The 8 AM […]
When a chip soars higher than its maker
A beautiful design is not enough to win a competition, much like a well-written book won’t become a bestseller on […]
Ancient language becomes essential in pandemic
Managers of legacy systems have plenty of experience with COBOL. Newer-tech owners tend to hoot at the venerable business language. […]
Python, a development tool rising in OpenVMS
This week an OpenVMS group meets on Zoom for open source discussions. On the horizon for open source tools sits […]