Tomasz Rola wrote:

>Perhaps they mean VAX and Alpha-based computers - I believe those had

>been acquired from DEC via Compaq and they (HP) were supporting both

>VAXen and Alphas, at least before the split.  

 

Well, Alpha as an architecture is long dead, though I'm sure some are still
running. Look for "2007" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha 

 

And VMS is OpenVMS these days. Since Itanium is also dead, it's being ported
to x86-64 and that's targeted for 2018, per
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS 

 

But I wouldn't VMS is a mainframe in any current sense, especially since it
only currently exists for a dead hardware platform. And it's not maintained
by HP or HPE, but by VMS Software, Inc. (which makes some of us laugh who
used to now a company called VM Software, Inc., which is almost the same!).

 

Thanks for the diversion-I was trapped on a boring conference call and this
exercise kept my brain alive!


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