[Beowulf] Oracle buys Sun
Joe Landman
landman at scalableinformatics.com
Tue Apr 21 17:23:15 PDT 2009
Chris Samuel wrote:
> ----- "Geoff Jacobs" <gdjacobs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You forgot RDB for OpenVMS, where they will happily
>> charge for every processor cycle.
>
> I admin'd my last VMS box back in the mid 90's, I
> intend to try and keep it that way.. ;-)
A friend from graduate school a little ways back told me that he kept
his data on vax-tape, because you could always spin a vax-tape...
This was VMS. Not openVMS. Vax 8650 or something like that.
I seem to remember the scripting language was quite fortran-esq.
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