[Info-vax] VAX/VMS is not VMS. Not any more.

[Simon Clubley]

VAX/VMS is no longer VMS. VMS has developed greatly since those days.

Suggesting that people learn VMS by sticking them in front of a VAX/VMS
machine makes about as much sense as telling people to learn Windows by
sticking them in front of a Windows 98 or Windows 2000 machine.

VAX/VMS is so limited compared to later versions of VMS (even Alpha)
that it is extremely counter productive to tell people to learn VMS by
making VAX/VMS their first exposure to VMS, especially when a hobbyist
version of Alpha VMS is freely available to use.

The only reason you would stick someone in front of a Windows 2000 machine
these days is to show them how to design a proper GUI that is functional,
productive, and easy to follow. VAX/VMS doesn't even have that going for it.

Oh, and neither HPE or VSI killed VAX/VMS. The changing nature of technology
did that.

Simon.

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