Category: OpenVMS
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Too Many Hobby Projects on GitHub
I started this blog mostly to rant about how cryptocurrency is a scam and a fraud. I think I can now safely bask in the correctness of everything I’ve written on that subject. “Crypto” was and is entirely a scam and a fraud, and more people are waking up to the scope and scale of…
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OpenVMS vs. z/OS
Finally, I’m in the mood to post about something tech-related. Did you know that OpenVMS, the OS formerly known as VAX/VMS, has recently been ported to run on x86 servers? That’s quite an interesting development, considering that VMS previously ran on DEC Alpha and Intel Itanium, two obsolete CPUs to which it was ported from…
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Fun With OpenVMS
Hi everyone. I apologize for not writing more posts recently. I was planning to write a series about RISC OS and Amiga, but my own retrocomputing interest has taken me in a different direction, and one more relevant to present-day enterprise servers. I’ve been doing a lot of work with OpenVMS recently, because it’s the…