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Re:Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993 by actionfromafar on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:57AM (#39395428)
You have VAX users?
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Re:Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993 by chasil on Friday February 16, 2024 @07:31AM (#39396073)
VMS 7.3.
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Re:Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993 by cbm-vic-20 on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:51AM (#39397781)
Are they still actually running on VAX, or something more "modern" like Alpha?
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Re:Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993 by chasil on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:30AM (#39398328)
We are using the Charon VAX emulator on an HPE Xeon.

I have my own skunkworks VMS 1.0 on SimH, from these instructions:

https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_VMS_V1.0_on_SIMH

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Re:Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993 by sgt on Friday February 16, 2024 @11:57AM (#39399661)
Who is using VMS in 2024? Use case?
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Re:Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993 by chasil on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:09PM (#39400747)
An enormous set of COBOL applications using TDMS.
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