[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <7h46d5F2s72n0U3 at mid.individual.net>,
	Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:14:54 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>>>> Unix 1969
>>> 
>>> that's Multics, not Unix.
>> 
>> Actually, it was listed as Unics and I assume this is the very first
>> attempt which is why I compared it to the 1975 date for VMS which wasn't
>> a release but the "start of development".  Now, if you want to only
>> compare finished products.....
> 
> Surely the first attempt at VMS was a lot earlier....RSX?

I hear this here quite a bit, but I see little in common betweem them.
(At the actual OS level.)

> 
> RSX bears the same relation to VMS that Unics does to the 32 bit UNIX 
> systems.
 
 woudl expect that there is much more in common between 16 bit and 32 bit
Unix than between RSX and VMS (do they actually share any code?)

bill 
 

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