1st annual VMS Reunion

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/

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

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

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 ;-)