Article about Seattle schools still running a VAX

[Sridhar Ayengar]

John Floren wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> tiggerlasv at aim.com wrote:
>>  > Not being from the Vax world, I wonder difficult it would be
>>  > for them to move them over to SIMH or CHARON emulators?
>>  >
>>  > The savings in power & air conditioning alone would probably
>>  > pay for the new equipment in the first year.   ;-)
>>
>>  Would it really be too expensive to move to OpenVMS/Integrity?
>>
>>  Peace...  Sridhar
>>
> 
> Integrity is only an option if they have the source, right? I'm
> imagining that they've got a bunch of VAX binaries from long-dead
> companies... does VEST do VAX->Itanium?

No, but VEST will go to Alpha, and then you can use AEST to go to IA64.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/integrity/transition/vax/app_tools.html

Peace...  Sridhar