[Info-vax] VMS dying?

[Dirk Munk]

Jack Meoff wrote:
> David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote in news:lvqgmd$l8p$1 at dont-
> email.me:
>
>> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>> Zaky Waky wrote 2014-09-22 22:22:
>>>> David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote in
>>>> news:lvnmhg$ivj$2 at dont-email.me:
>>>>
>>>>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>>>> In article <XnsA3AF9812C4D30gmail9com at 8.17.249.105>, Zaky Waky
>>>>>> <ZakyWaky at gmail9.com> writes:
>>>>>>> Has anyone heard any recent rumers of VMS dying?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There must be a shortage of bridges in the wolrd today for these
>>>>>> trolls to take up residence.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I've been selling the bridges to the people who believe the
>>>>> trolls
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> What's a wolrd ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You old farts are funny.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Funny or not, why not simply reply to my forst question:
>>>
>>>   >> Has anyone heard any recent rumers of VMS dying?
>>>   >
>>>   > Have you?
>>>
>>> Why are you asking in the first place?
>>> And what are "recent" here? In the last decade?
>>>
>>> Jan-Erik.
>>
>> recent - anything after 1986 ....
>>
>
> You old farts are a blast.  No wonder you can't see that the ship is
> sinking and the water is up to your ankles.  I'll admit that VMS was a
> great technology.....  fourty years ago.  But it's time is past.
>
> You really did loose the battle againts *nix.
>

You're absolutely right, Unix is much more modern.

Unix and C were developed on the PDP-8. The PDP-8 was the forerunner
of the PDP-11. Both were extremely successful computerlines. And guess 
what, the PDP-11 was the forerunner of the Vax, and VMS was developed 
for the Vax.

The PDP-8 was a 12 bit computer, with a maximum of 32kilowords (48kB) 
internal memory, the Vax was a 32 bit system. Don't you think that an 
operating system designed years after Unix was designed, and built for 
much more powerful computersystem is also much more sophisticated?