[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> Paul Anderson schrieb:
>>> Unix is older than VMS but don't confuse me with the facts.  ;-)
>> 
>> At worst the difference is a few years only
>> (and don't confuse Multics with Unix),

multics was another interesting system, hampered far more than vms by
being based on a special design of hardware.  (i don't actually know
of any port of multics to a different architecture; when i re-read
organick's book a little while back, i was amazed that they achieved
anything as a multi-user service on such limited hardware.)

>> which is insignificant in hindsight of 30* years.
>
>Unix 1969
>VMS 1975
>
>That's 6 years.  A lifetime in this industry.

so people programming vms today are great-great-great-great-
grandchildren of those of us who started on v1.6?
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge