[Info-vax] OT: Computing Experience, What brought you to VMS?

[Richard Dyson]

On Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:37:21 PM UTC-5, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> On 2014-01-30 20:08:38 -0500, Simon Clubley said:
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> > On 2014-01-30, Louis Krupp <?> wrote:
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> >> I miss the calling standard.  I miss descriptors.  I miss the buttons
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> >> we got at DECUS, too.  I wish I'd kept more of them.
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> > What this discussion (and all the new posters in this thread) tells me is
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> > that there are a hell of a lot of people who are still interested in VMS
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> > but that we don't know about because they never usually post.
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> > I was beginning to think that the only people reading comp.os.vms were
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> > the people who still posted here.
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> > Simon.
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> I'm sure there are a lot of us lurkers.  You can search on me I used to 
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> post some but I haven't had much useful to say in a while and I prefer 
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> not to get caught up in the usual "VMS is dead because..." threads.
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> JHR

There sure are, ever since I heard of it VMS has been a curiosity to me, unfortunately it seemed to have gotten marginalized just about the time I came onto the scene in 2000. x.x