From: jim@bad.invalid   
      
   On 12/12/24 03:04, Jilly wrote:   
   > Folks,   
   >   
   > On Friday the time will come to close up my system and retire.  I started   
   this   
   > journey in 1979, hired by Digital's Upgrade Training Program in CXO to learn   
   > electronics and started working on the RM02/03 manufacturing line.  From   
   there   
   > I went to NYC Field Service and in 1989 I met John Hockett at a CSC Road Show   
   > interview. In May I was working on the VMS Internals and Performance team in   
   > CX03, hugely lucky in getting Mark Morris as a cube mate. John & Mark were   
   > primarily responsible for my progression in VMS Support.  In 1992 I started   
   > WFH and have been at home in Waverly, NY since 1994. I have worked with a   
   > number of highly talented people in the VMS ecosystem and am very grateful   
   for   
   > all the collaborations I received over the years.   
   >   
   > My plans are to travel for family events, play more golf, do more racing   
   > travel but most of all, play more poker.   
   >   
   > I wish VSI all the best for the future of VMS.   
   >   
   > Have a safe & happy holiday.   
   >   
   > Jilly   
      
   Congratulations on your retirement!   
      
   If I recall, the last bug you and I uncovered was this little beauty...   
      
   https://www.eight-cubed.com/blog/archives/001285.html   
   https://www.eight-cubed.com/blog/archives/001289.html   
      
   Which turned out to be an issue with the port of an MACRO-32 module to C   
   back in the VAX to Alpha port.  If I remember correctly, the problem was   
   the port had failed to include a memory barrier in the C code which was   
   implied in the MACRO-32, and the bug hid for over 30 years until an IA64   
   doing *lots* of directory renames on the same disk in parallel uncovered it.   
      
   Fun times :)   
   Jim   
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