[Coco] Re: OS Vulnerabilities

[David Hazelton]

John E. Malmberg wrote:

>> And Again, John; who still uses VMS?
> 
> 
> Most semiconductor manufacturing.
> 
> About 1/2 the major stock exchanges, most of the rest use Tandem.
> 
> Hospitals, banks, military, railroads, customs, genealogy, video rental 
> tracking, music industry.  Manufacturing automation, Real estate MLS 
> listings, payroll outsourcing companies, insurance, 911 systems, 
> wireless phone billing, lotteries, and there are probably quite a few 
> that I do not know about.
> 
> It mainly is a back end industrial server these days, but there are some 
> people people that are needing some extreme graphics on it, I do not 
> know what those applications are.
> 
> In areas where downtime is measured in multiples of $1000 per minute, it 
> has a strong niche with all competing solutions costing many times more.
> 
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.net
> Personal Opinion Only
> 
> 
> 
John~

Pretty much the Same people who used it in the 90's.  I once interviewed 
  for a System Admin job with a Semiconductor company that was still 
using RSX-11.  This was in the early 90's.  I asked them, since I was 
too young to have used it, what made them pull my resume.  I was 
pleasantly surprised at the similarities as I was shown a brief look at 
the OS.  Also as the Dec-11's were down and waiting for replacements, 
one of the IT GURU's wrote a version of MUMPS for the Amiga, so the 
equipment attached could still run.  I was pretty amazed.

I once worked for a Security system company that it's flagship product 
was on VMS with Macintosh Clients.  They used the Vaxes for fault 
torrence.  I am surprised that Stratus's hardware didn't go too far in 
this area.

I know in the 80's that the Ohio Turnpike was driven by VMS,  Every toll 
was instantly tracked in their account software.  Just wondering how big 
it still is, since I haven't seen much call for it lately and DEC's 
demise and Compaq's ability to screw up a simple PC.  (my humble 
opinion).  Also HP has to compete with itself with HP-UX.


~David Hazelton