[Info-vax] State of the OpenVMS hobbyist program?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/22/19 8:13 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-11-21, Henry Crun <mike at rechtman.com> wrote:
>> On 21/11/2019 14:35, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 12:03:08 PM UTC-6, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bitsavers has a lot of it, but I still have quite a bit of paper
>>>> documentation for RT-11 and RSTS.
>>>>
>>> RSTS/E is sexy!
>>>
>>
>> +++1
>>
> 
> Ok everyone, why the love for RSTS/E in 2019 ?
> 
> It's utterly obsolete, has no modern security or networking, 

Some people  have said that about VMS. :-)


>                                                               has a limited
> address space that heavily restricts the type of applications you can run, etc.

Address space was a hardware restriction.  Had it been ported to
the VAX originally that would not have been the case.  Were it
ported to x86-64 today the applications could easily be as bloated
as on Windows (and rapidly today, Linux!)

bill