[Info-vax] VMS is 44 today

[malekar san]

On Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 10:49:58 AM UTC-7, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-10-25, abrsvc <dansabr... at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> > On Monday, October 25, 2021 at 8:16:12 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> >> VAX and VMS were announced 44 years ago on this day. 
> >> 
> >> For those of you old enough to be working in the DEC world at the 
> >> time, did you think you would still be using VMS 44 years later ? 
> >> 
> >> I wonder if VSI is planning anything for the 45th anniversary 
> >> next year ? 
> >> 
> >> Simon. 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> >> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear. 
> > 
> > As I continue with my 42nd of VMS/OpenVMS work, I can honestly say that I did not expect this. 
> > But, who ever thinks that they will be either doing or working with the same thing for this long? 
> > I view my career as lucky in that I have always been able to maintain VMS work that has never truly been work. 
> > I have always enjoyed my jobs and when they became work, moved on to something else. 
> > The common denominator has always been VMS with the exception of a 3 year period in the early 2000s where 
> > I built commercial playgrounds fulltime and did consulting (within OpenVMS world) part time. 
> > 
> > Good times... 
> >
> Indeed. Just writing that number "44" down brought home just 
> how long this is.
> Simon. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

In 1989 i started working on Dec products, my first version of VMS was 3.2 running on 11/730, 11/750 and then we upgraded to 4300. Later on i worked for DEC/Compaq until 2015 but Alphas got phased out in 2010 and i no longer see them. I still would love to work on VMS, no other OS has come close to it.

regards
San