The Alpha chip is no longer manufactured (IMHO: Alphacide committed by COMPAQ to help it get bought by HP), but HP is continuing to release new versions of VMS for Alpha that has most of the functionality of the Integrity release: a common 64 bit code base is used, which was substantially different from the 32 bit code for VAX. Differences between Alpha and Integrity are that some hardware and software is not availabe for VMS Alpha systems: Serial SCSI comes to mind, and Intel's Itainium port of Sun's HotSpot JVM.
Version 8.4 of OpenVMS for Integrity and Alpha is entering beta (field test) for prodution release early next year.
h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c108973a801/?ciid=66a2aea9e2f73210VgnVCM100000a360ea10RCRD
To be sure, this is about a year late, and HP has laid off most of the experienced team (including some original developers from the 1970's) moving development to India (where DEC has started development teams decades ago), so it's not as if this is HP's lead investment. I've met some of the Indian developers, and they seemed intelligent, interested in promoting VMS, and willing to learn new and unique skills specific to VMS (i.e. crash dump analysis).
VAX/VMS is still at version 7.3, and will probably stay there, although patches are still being released.
There is a free licensing program for non-commercial use for any VAX, Alpha, or Integrity system, including emulators (SIMH is free and supports VAX).
www.openvmshobbyist.com
Born and raised in California, earthquakes tend to be boring:
Magnitude 3.x is what the news programs talk about in between the weather and highway traffic.
4.x tends to be somebody says something fell over.
5.x is when you start to notice...
Loma Prieta was 6.9 and the epicenter about 60 miles from my home, about the same distance to the houses that collapsed and burned in San Francisco. It's not the distance but the local ground conditions that made the difference: the only thing that happened at my house was an empty soda can fell over. In the Marina District, the landfill (from the 1906 earthquake) turned to jello, something like that happened in Oakland to the freeway, and my house on a natural slope was fine.
Besides, there is no "if" about a coming large quake, only "when", and to a lesser extent where: most likely the northern end on the Hayward fault. Santa Rosa would be the San Andreas fault.
I would hope for public access to non-personal details, so everybody on the planet can to performance analysis on the care and outcome of treatment.
Then private (encrypted) access for when I'm in the doctors office and hospital.
The hard part is going to be tracking changes for use in malpractice cases.
Vista won't be used because it already works.
Nobody makes a lot of money from something that works...
Can we call what goes in the Colbert a zune?
"Module Colbert: higher than Rush Limbuagh has ever been"
"Module Cobert: around the world 16 times a day"
Slightly OT, Colbert to Stewart:
"I actually have a part of a space station named after me, and all you have is the planet Uranus and that wasn't really on purpose now was it"
Baltar didn't keep his involvement a secret: he confessed to Pres. Roslyn.
Admittedly he was wounded and on pain meds, and Roslyn then tries to kill him by removing his bandages to let him bleed to death as she watches.
Her next move is supported from BSG's story line, and from much of our own: she has a "vision" (as the Cyclon Basestar ship goes through a hyper-jump), and as a result saves Baltar.
Since Baltar is not one of the Final Five cyclons, I figure his guilt and manipulation by Caprical Six is why she keeps appearing to him. And he to her, so her "humanity" is susceptible to the same side effects.
Since NASA has pissed on Rutan for decades (because I saw them do it in the 1980s when I worked at NASA Dryden on Edwards AFB), the worst thing the USAF can do to NASA is ask for his help.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
