[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[P. Sture]

In article <k7Usm.49249$5n1.27017 at attbi_s21>,
 "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.network> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I'm pretty sure it was VAX-ELN. They took ages to boot from cold.

-- 
Paul Sture