[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>> Surely the first attempt at VMS was a lot earlier....RSX?
>
>I hear this here quite a bit, but I see little in common betweem them.
>(At the actual OS level.)

i never quite saw it, but a colleague who did systems programming for
my team on rsx 11-m said the internal structure of rsx "felt" very
similar to those modules of vms "signed" by dave cutler.

(wouldn't it be nice if commercial operating systems nowadays arrived
with source listings?  vms was the last such that i saw.)
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge