Comment by chasil

Our shop floor system is still written in VAX ACMS, using TDMS for menus, and Oracle Rdb for SQL.

I still have an account. It runs on the Charon emulator.

A little after your time, I wrote code on a DECstation 5000/240 running MIPS/Ultrix. I'm surprised that wasn't faster, and/or available to you.

The vector extensions might have been your niche though.