Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell

Yup, the office building known as ZKO and where I’ve spent the last 20 years working for DEC/Compaq/HP is no longer going to be where I park my butt during the day. I’ll be heading down to Marlboro, MA a few days a week starting sometime in 2008.

Here is what the Nashua Telegraph has to say in their newsblog section: HP to close Nashua site. The news traveled fast — their entry is dated 5:24pm today, just hours after the official announcement to employees.

Update: Wednesday full coverage in the Nashua Telegraph: HP to close Nashua site

I wonder when the new owners will take down the VMS-inspired Non-Paged Pool sign.

Non-Paged Pool sign (1/3)

Originally uploaded by marcn.

A little geek humor for the day —

Instead of the usual afternoon coffee break, I walked out behind the office building and took these pictures.

Back in the late 1980s, one of Digital Equipment Corp’s VAX/VMS developers planted this sign.

VMS has two types of kernel memory pools to allocate from — paged which can be swapped out and non-paged which can not move. Clearly this pool is of the latter type. Is there any other kind?

See all three photos here

There are no
raises at HP this year, so please go
bid on my auction.

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Thank you ;-)