[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <q6udTSzh5pjp at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> 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.

Tha is, if one believes that Unix remained static during its lifetime, which
we all know is hardly the case.  Things that needed changing have changed.
Things that did not have remained the same.

bill

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