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Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

Carry on, regardless.

Careful with those Dongles, Eugene...

How Charon-AXP Saved a Nuclear Power Plant from Shutdown

https://www.stromasys.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tai_Power_vax_case_study_20200622_A4.pdf

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Bare Metal VMS, VSI? - Quo Vadis...

Back in late 2012 when I was out of work I had accepted (but never actually started) a job working with VMS at the Limerick, PA, nuclear power plant
then owned by Exelon. They told me that the only application for which
they were using VMS was some sort of long-term health monitoring of the reactor, rather than controlling it or any safety critical subsystems. My memory is vague these 13 years later, and I donrCOt remember for certain whether it was VAX or Alpha, but I do know they werenrCOt planning to migrate to Integrity (almost certainly a good thing they werenrCOt) but instead to
move it to some other commodity architecture and OS.

(I bailed out because the pay was low, the moving expenses were all on me,
and there was little in the way of decent housing for my family to be had
in the neighborhood. And Limerick at that time struck me as a pretty dismal place to live or work. Also I think at least some of their software people
were unionized.)

I would have had one Patrick Henry as my supervisor. That was really his
name.

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In article <10dva9i$3ihvb$1@dont-email.me>,
Olorin <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

Carry on, regardless.

Careful with those Dongles, Eugene...

How Charon-AXP Saved a Nuclear Power Plant from Shutdown

https://www.stromasys.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tai_Power_vax_case_study_20200622_A4.pdf

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Bare Metal VMS, VSI? - Quo Vadis...

Back in late 2012 when I was out of work I had accepted (but never actually >started) a job working with VMS at the Limerick, PA, nuclear power plant
then owned by Exelon. They told me that the only application for which
they were using VMS was some sort of long-term health monitoring of the >reactor, rather than controlling it or any safety critical subsystems. My >memory is vague these 13 years later, and I donrCOt remember for certain >whether it was VAX or Alpha, but I do know they werenrCOt planning to migrate >to Integrity (almost certainly a good thing they werenrCOt) but instead to >move it to some other commodity architecture and OS.

(I bailed out because the pay was low, the moving expenses were all on me, >and there was little in the way of decent housing for my family to be had
in the neighborhood. And Limerick at that time struck me as a pretty dismal >place to live or work. Also I think at least some of their software people >were unionized.)

I would have had one Patrick Henry as my supervisor. That was really his >name.

I wonder if he ever sat in front of his terminal and said to the
computer, "Give me memory or give me death!"

- Dan C.

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