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Which of their competitors can you still buy new faster hardware from? Does anyone sell Stratus VOS or DEC VAX VMS compatible systems?

Yeah I know I am showing my age....

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The people who designed their systems such that they could be easily transitioned off of IBM have done so long ago. Those systems now run exponentially cheaper and have access to more resources.

Vendor lock-in was just as much of a problem then as now.

Yes because people in the 80s writing COBOL were writing AbstractFactorySingletonBeans to create a facade to make their transitions to newer platforms easier....

> Does anyone sell... DEC VAX VMS compatible systems?

https://www.avtware.com/cloud

Someone should check if it can run OpenGenera.

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