[Info-vax] History of DECSET / CMS

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On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 5:49:11 PM UTC-6, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 3/29/2020 7:33 PM, Andrew Shaw wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I need to educate my colleagues behind the history of CMS which is what all
> > our VMS development processes are built around (no surprise there) - because
> > these processes have gradually morphed and matured over a period of some 20+
> > years, probably a lot longer.
> > 
> > I am being asked why we are not using git and as part of my answer I would
> > like to provide some factual background about CMS' robust history.
> > 
> > I am guessing it started back in the VAX days, or was it even earlier than
> > that? Was it always part of DECSET?
> 
> Yes, it was started in the VAX days, but I'm not sure when V1.0 was released -- 
> I'd guess 1981.  CMS and MMS predate the packaging (along with LSE, SCA, PCA, 
> and DTM) into VAXset (which became DECset).
> 
> CMS (along with the rest of DECset) is still maintained by VSI, although we are 
> primarily doing bug fixes (and the occassional enhancement).
> 
> I am the primary DECset maintainer at VSI.
> 
> -- 
>                   -- Rob

...Thanks for fixing (in v4.8) the corruption problem we had with libraries that have large element counts (thousands).

And don't get rid of the reference directory feature.

-Steve