[Info-vax] VMS dying?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-23 17:02, Dirk Munk wrote:
> 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?

Please don't feed the troll.

And as a side note, Unix originated on a PDP-7, not a PDP-8. And C only 
came into the picture after it had migrated to the PDP-11.

	Johnny