[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing]

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

That was my memory as well.  (I think that was true for LPS-17 as well.)

-- Alan