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![Them: God, please save humanity from the ravages of disease and suffering.
God: *creates super smart scientists who
create vaccines*
Them: Ew no. That's poison.
[painting of Jesus laying on a rock near a tree reaching out]](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/179/900/991/452/479/original/274756c85a3b0378.png "Them: God, please save humanity from the ravages of disease and suffering.
God: *creates super smart scientists who
create vaccines*
Them: Ew no. That's poison.
[painting of Jesus laying on a rock near a tree reaching out]")
Did I just do a #Markdown conversion of Mark Russinovich’s seminal 1998 article on #WindowsNT (and by extension, all modern versions of #MicrosoftWindows)’ debt to #DEC’s #VMS #OperatingSystem? Just so I could have a decent copy apart from the dusty carried-over archived version at https://www.ITProToday.com/server-virtualization/windows-nt-and-vms-the-rest-of-the-story ?
Why yes, yes I did. Why not?
@NanoRaptor Heck, the VAXstation was a very cute, little, and *real* #VAX
After the #FDA canx'd its advisory board meeting on next season's #flu #vax recommendations, the agency made it's own decision and notified manufacturers without outside input. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-makes-recommendations-influenza-vaccines-manufacturers-2025-03-13/
Are you vaccination hesitant? Perhaps this article will help.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/feb/27/how-anti-vax-parents-changed-their-minds
It is a rare day. Rosenkrantz has been resetting to firmware so we bought another VAX 4000-60 to try sort it out and this one is the cleanest we've ever seen.
Folks, if you or you kids can get ANY vaccines or boosters that they will need, get them NOW. I think they will first target HPV, so definitely make sure your kids get that. They can give the first dose at 9. And you are eligible until you are 45. Also, if you are Gen X and might only have had one dose of measles vaccine (was the standard for a while) or if you might have missed the MMR at any point, GO GET ONE TODAY. You CAN ask your doctor to titer you, which is fine, but if you don't have time or medical insurance, you can also just go get the vaccine.
@Holberg It is not, it's now the "DCU Centre," after a local bank, which bizarrely is the surviving employee credit union of the long-defunct Digital Equipment Corp.
I feel like Mastodon people might appreciate that oddball piece of #ComputerScience #history.
This is kinda fun for ex-DEC / Digital UK alumni or users - They are making a movie too!
https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/digital60
I found it trying to find old DECUS programmes for the UK/Ireland when we did the annual conferences at Warwick Uni.
Your VAX in a Cloud is Ready - For many people of a certain age, the DEC VAX was the first computer they ever use... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/your-vax-in-a-cloud-is-ready/ #retrocomputing #openvms #dec #vax #vms
@jfmezei One of the reasons VAX is comparatively slow involves the condition codes, including the carry bit.
~Every VAX instruction is a test instruction, if you want it to be.
But if you break that part of the VAX design to make the architecture go faster, you might as well also break, err, alter some other VAX architectural design constraints. After some other work including Prism, that architectural replacement was Alpha.
As assemblers go, VAX is quite nice.
But assembler as a choice for app development started to fade around the era of the 3GL vs Assembler debates; the early to mid 1980s.
Section 8.4 has details of the VAX condition codes:
Please feel free to use and share these freely (though please also provide attribution if you do!)
#retroComputing #minimalistArt #vectorArt #VAX #TapeDrive #TexasInstruments #DEC #DigitalEquipmentCorporation #PDP8 #IBM
hey btw: have some info about vaccination. Not historical, but recent actual studies.
https://vaccineknowledge.ox.ac.uk/covid19-faqs
https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/10/04/how-many-people-have-died-as-a-result-of-a-covid-19-vaccine/
But what about #VAX?
There is a DEC NIC (the DEBNA and DEBNK) with both an on-board VAX chip, and an 80186 chip.
Expensive chip choices aside, this NIC could continue to run with the VAX host entirely shut down, if the VAXBI host bus was not specifically reset.
Which meant you could successfully ping a downed host, as the VAX and 80186 and firmware running out on the NIC could conspire to process that traffic autonomously.
Fun times.
Homeopathic science: The fewer scientists that holds an opinion, the more correct that opinion is.
All scientists says global warming is real and human made? You can not trust in science!
One scientist says the ice isn't melting? Science is great!
All scientists says vaccines we have given to millions of people over decades are safe and efficient? Science is all just a huge lie!
One scientist says the vaccine is terrible? Listen to the scientist!!
@DL1JPH exactly that…
It's the reason banks still roll their systems on them and why I know the story if a #COBOL developer who literally fixed their mothers' code that was older than they are...
- Same reason why #hp still has to maintain #OpenVMS & #VAX systems, as #DoD (on behalf of the #FAA) demanded them to uphold the open-ended, single-side - only cancellable contract that #DEC signed and that they inherited throigh #Compaq's acquisition of DEC, as the #ATC Systems of the U.S. runs off those machines...
@anantagd@ieji.de @anantagd@fgc.network @JackRacc @bhawthorne
Tattoo update: The Great #nov22mastodonmigration. I also noticed that the #twitter #deadbird has my youth's #vax scar in the ass! 
