The article is about PDP-11 computers (16-bit, 1M max memory, from the 1970s) which never ran VMS (runs on 32-bit VAXes with 4M+ memory from the 1980s). I don't know why the author mentions OpenVMS in the Updates section because it isn't mentioned anywhere in the article body.

It's not entirely clear from the article, but I don't believe the PDP-11s are running VMS. As far as I know VMS has never been ported to the PDP-11.

Yeah, they're likely running RT-11 or RSX-11.

I wonder if the hardware is original and they simply have plenty of spares, or if boards are rebuilt with discrete logic or FPGAs/CPLDs as they break down.

I personally worked with VMS/VAX/Alpha based systems for nuclear power plant simulators, process control for petrochemical, plastics, chemicals oil & gas, semiconductor facilities till 2002. Still get requests for consulting primarily on system/program conversion projects from VMS/Fortran variants to Windows/Unix/C variants.

I remember learning about nuclear power plants and VMS back when I was in university. I was told they were used for the nuclear sensor networks though.

VMS never ran on the PDP-11. That article is talking about 2 different things (running PDP-11s and HPs stance on VMS).

Hard to find a comment by you not in oblivion but I'm trolling for nobody :

Former NSA staffer and famous whistleblower, William Binney, says the DNC hack was not done by Russia but by US Intelligence.

http://investmentwatchblog.com/nsa-whistleblower-says-dnc-ha...

what ?

make youself clear

No stuxnet, less worry about someone's USB key from home might infect the computer. :-)