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Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode

From Olorin <no_email@invalid.invalid>
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Subject Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode
Date 2025-10-30 09:14 +0000
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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
> 
> :
> :
> 
> 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 don’t remember for certain
whether it was VAX or Alpha, but I do know they weren’t planning to migrate
to Integrity (almost certainly a good thing they weren’t) 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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Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> - 2025-10-24 23:31 +1100
  Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-10-24 08:49 -0400
    Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2025-10-24 10:45 -0400
      Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2025-10-24 17:16 +0000
    Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2025-10-24 17:30 +0000
      Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-10-24 13:42 -0400
        Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2025-10-24 21:01 +0100
          Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2025-10-28 13:16 +0000
        Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2025-10-26 15:56 +0000
          Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2025-10-28 13:09 +0000
    Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> - 2025-10-26 20:45 -0400
  Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-24 16:58 +0300
    Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-10-24 09:07 -0400
      Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-24 21:02 +0000
      Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-26 17:37 +0200
    Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-24 20:59 +0000
  Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2025-10-24 17:13 +0000
    Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-10-24 13:34 -0400
      Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2025-10-24 18:46 +0100
        Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-10-24 13:51 -0400
          Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-24 21:05 +0000
        Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-24 18:18 +0000
        Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-10-26 11:40 +0100
          Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-10-26 15:36 +0100
      Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2025-10-24 21:35 -0400
        Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-10-26 11:42 +0100
          Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2025-10-26 08:35 -0400
            Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-10-26 10:55 -0400
              Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2025-10-26 21:56 -0400
                Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-10-26 22:09 -0400
                Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-27 10:16 +0000
                Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-10-27 15:55 -0400
                Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-28 12:58 +0000
                Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2025-10-28 13:54 +0000
                Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode "Robert A. Brooks" <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com> - 2025-10-28 12:15 -0400
                Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-10-29 10:04 +0100
                Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2025-10-29 13:13 +0000
      Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-10-26 17:44 -0400
        Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-27 10:17 +0000
    Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-24 18:10 +0000
      Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2025-10-24 21:38 -0400
      Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> - 2025-10-26 21:57 -0400
        Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-27 10:22 +0000
          Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-10-27 11:23 +0000
            Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-27 14:05 +0000
              Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-10-27 18:06 -0400
            Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-10-27 19:37 -0400
  Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-24 20:53 +0000
  Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode Olorin <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-30 09:14 +0000
    Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-30 10:52 +0000

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