[Info-vax] OS Ancestry

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-13, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you.  That takes me back a little bit further.  But I fear the
> very origins, the driving model, may be long lost by this time.  I
> have a number of very early textbooks on Operating Systems and none
> of them describe features common in VMS or RSX.  It's really just
> curiosity, but I wondered where some of the concepts originated.
>

At one point, there used to be a couple of timeline documents available
online, one about VMS and one about the history of DEC itself.

I wonder if they have been lost to time ?

I had a look for the one about the history of DEC, but couldn't find it.

I did find this however, which might be useful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Digital_Equipment_Corporation

Simon.

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