Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell » VMS http://nozell.com/blog Marc Nozell's random stuff -- mostly GNU/Linux, technology, genealogy, family Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:18:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 1st annual VMS Reunion http://nozell.com/blog/2009/05/29/1st-annual-vms-reunion/ http://nozell.com/blog/2009/05/29/1st-annual-vms-reunion/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 15:09:58 +0000 Marc Nozell http://nozell.com/blog/2009/05/29/1st-annual-vms-reunion/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }


VMS Quilt, originally uploaded by marcn.


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/

]]> http://nozell.com/blog/2009/05/29/1st-annual-vms-reunion/feed/ 0 HP leaving NH http://nozell.com/blog/2007/12/11/hp-leaving-nh/ http://nozell.com/blog/2007/12/11/hp-leaving-nh/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:45:22 +0000 Marc Nozell http://nozell.com/blog/2007/12/11/hp-leaving-nh/ 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)

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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

]]> http://nozell.com/blog/2005/05/06/non-paged-pool/feed/ 0 I (heart) MY VAX / VMS FOREVER bumperstickers http://nozell.com/blog/2004/02/26/i-heart-my-vax-vms-forever-bumperstickers/ http://nozell.com/blog/2004/02/26/i-heart-my-vax-vms-forever-bumperstickers/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:37:00 +0000 Marc Nozell http://nozell.com/blog/archives/2004/02/26/i-heart-my-vax-vms-forever-bumperstickers/ There are no
raises at HP this year, so please go
bid on my auction.



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Thank you ;-)

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