[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[John Reagan]

"Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
news:7gvj6hF2ricj3U4 at mid.individual.net...
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:46:35 +0200, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>
>> Paul Anderson schrieb:
>>
>>
>>> Unix is older than VMS but don't confuse me with the facts.  ;-)
>>
>> At worst the difference is a few years only (and don't confuse Multics
>> with Unix), which is insignificant in hindsight of 30* years.
>
> Anyway, 32 bit UNIX didn't arrive until *after* VMS. One would have to
> compare early UNIX (even on the PDP-11) with 16 bit VMS (or RSX-11, as we
> know it)! :-)

The Perkin-Elmer 8/32 (a 32-bit computer) ran a flavor of UNIX and was in 
the field before the first VAXen.  My former employer had one.  It was the 
first non-PDP-11 computer to run UNIX.

John