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Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode

From cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups comp.os.vms
Subject Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode
Date 2025-10-30 10:52 +0000
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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
>> 
>> :
>> :
>> 
>> 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. 

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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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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