[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[John E. Malmberg]

Bob Eager wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:54:14 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>> In article <7hhqleF2u15qvU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
>> (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>> So then, you agree with me that DCL, per se, is not really a part of
>>> the OS as it functions just fine without it.
>>    Nope.  I've never seen a VMS system running without DCL.  Even when
>>    we used VMS in a manner similar to an embedded system it did have an
>>    OPA0, and we used DCL heavily.
> 
> I've seen a VMS system that didn't even have a console.
> 
> It was called an LPS-40.

While the LPS-40 had a VAX processor in it, it certainly was not running 
VMS.  Paul Anderson can probably state more accurately, but IIRC, it was 
running VAX-ELN.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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