[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Mon Mar 23 09:15:23 EDT 2009


In article <000f7f99$0$2160$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> In the end, VMS will have had over 30 years of active development and
> this isn't too shabby.
> 
> Only Unix and MVS will have surpassed this.

U*mmmm....  No, not really.  Active development (well, at least as active as
VMS seems to be) for three of the PDP-11 OSes just ended last year.  So, if
you take when they first started and compare that to when VMS first started
VMS will need a few more real good years to match them.

bill

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