Posts by Lloyd A

OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2

How clustering should be

I have fond memories of VMS. The clustering in particular was so far ahead of its time. One of the sites I looked after had a cluster of over 100 devices, even though the official supported limit was only 96. The use of 10Base2 did make for some interesting cluster events occasionally.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. Hang on, the PDP 11/70 has dropped offline

Thanks for reminding me of a company that managed to keep reinventing itself as technology changed. And had a great bunch of people working for it.

Whatever happened to telepresence? From $2.5m deals to free iPad apps

Re: Cisco is the problem, Skype is good enough

Skype is fully integrated with Lync from June 2013....

Is it? My understanding was that voice and IM are, but video is 18 months away.