[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <h8lvjk$5db$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
> 
> 1975/76 vs 1978 (as we have learned here) certainly is more
> a "few years" than a decade.
> 

   As we have learned, here and elsewhere, Ken Thompson of Bell Labs
   wrote UNIX in 1968, while the VMS Engineering team of DEC wrote
   VMS in the late 1970s, just about a decade later.

   When it shipped to the public by some measure does not reflect the
   OS design technology at the time it was written.  UNIX relfects
   designs popular in the late 60s, VMS reflects 10 more years of
   lessons learned.