Last night’s VMS Reunion in Nashua was great fun. My very first VMS manager that I had right out of college was there and first person I ever saw carry a cell phone (circa 1988).
Thanks to Susan Skonetski for setting it all up!
More photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157618959630572/
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
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