[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4d646c33$0$23765$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
> Some of these systems (telecom) are embedded, which are not really
> an area where VMS has been present at all, but other are
> regular servers that could in principle run VMS - they just
> don't for the same reasons that many other systems does not
> run VMS.
> 
> I would expect VMS presence in telecom to be focused
> around: RDB, Oracle, ACMS, Cobol etc.. BOA stuff.

   For decades, we had a contributer here telling us how the telephonic
   switching systems used by MCI ran on VMS and several attempts to port
   it to UNIX failed miserably.

   I don't know if any switches still run on VMS, but VMS certainly has
   been present there.