[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Fri Sep 25 08:49:01 EDT 2009


In article <h9i29n$rnr$2 at gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
	rf10 at cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
>  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?

A little low on your estimation.  There is a reason why people in the
industry today (like the academics I work with in my civilian job) all
refer to me as a dinosaur.

bill

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