[Info-vax] OS Ancestry

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>From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Bill
>Gunshannon via Info-vax
>Sent: May-13-21 9:21 AM
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>Cc: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com>
>Subject: [Info-vax] OS Ancestry
>
>
>I have become very curious about the ancestry of VMS.  (I am going to look
>into some others, but for VMS I do have this outlet for information!)
>
>Both Primos and Unix came from people recently working on Multics.  Primos
>went in the same direction as Multics while Unix appeared to go in a very
>different direction.
>
>VMS is more similar to Primos than Unix.  I have seen it said that RSX-11
was
>the immediate parent of VMS.  Was that true?
>Given that, what is the ancestry going back even further?
>Where did VMS actually get its start paradigm-wise?
>
>Anybody here have any of this information?
>
>bill
>

A few history links of interest:

VAX / VMS Timeline: (click on year)
<http://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/digital/timeline/tmlnhome.htm>
<http://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/digital/timeline/32-bit.htm>

VMS Release History:
<http://www.polarhome.com/vms/vms_hist.html>

VMS Clusters:
<http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.74.727&rep=rep1&ty
pe=pdf>

VMS vs UNIX (Neil's site)
<http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/vms_vs_unix.html>
<
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/Windows-NT_is_VMS_re-implemented.html#
forward>

Dave Cutler storey from '98 
<https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story>


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com






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