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IndrekR on June 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX exp...

Development of F22 started in 1980's. Last VAX machines were manufactured in 2005. There is quite a lot of VME bus based legacy (but speciallized and working) measurement and test equipment still around. I have no involvement in the project, so can not tell for sure; yet would be surprised if any of this is part of the flight hardware.

lallysingh on June 18, 2019 | [–]

Up until the mid 1990s similar machines (TurboChannel DECs) were required as personal workstations for my university.

ncmncm on June 18, 2019 | [–]

Apple used to use VME bus, I think. It was Advanced, then. Now it's, technically, Retarded.

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