[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-12 20:06:33 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:

> On 6/12/2016 12:40 PM, Hans Vlems wrote:
>> Why do you think the TDMS / DECforms / FMS discussions took place? 
>> That's where the user lives and that's where lots of money was spent in 
>> application development. No wonder many customers got severely p*d off 
>> when TDMS was not ported to Alpha.
> 
> Huh?  TDMS runs on both Alpha and IA64.  While I'm not exactly when 
> TDMS was ported to Alpha, I believe it was the early 90's.

TDMS was ported to Alpha and then to Itanium very late (~2004, IIRC), 
long after the cited customer consternation had arisen.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/v6/index.html#tdms



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