[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

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>From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj via
>Info-vax
>Sent: March-07-22 9:23 PM
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>Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
>Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives
>
>On 3/7/2022 5:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 3/7/22 13:57, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> The problem with that is that VMS isn't easy to manage by current
>>> standards although it certainly was by the standards of 25 years ago.
>>
>> Simon, I pretty much agreed with what you said except for this one part.
>>
>> 25 years ago I managed Window, Unix and VMS.  Had a nice VAX Cluster
>> and about 100 users. VMS was by far the hardest to manage. I could do
>> Unix and even windows with no documentation provided by the vendor.
>> VMS was impossible without The Grey Wall.  And, if you had
>> documentation but found it inadequate there was a wealth of third
>> party documentation available.   lot of it free.  What was there for
>VMS?  The Grey Wall.
>>
>> I had management tools for Windows and Unix like CFengine.  For VMS, I
>> had The Grey Wall.  Do I really need to go on?  Heck, still had RSTS
>> running in those days and even it was easier to manage than VMS.
>>
>> And, the worst part of it is that nothing has changed other than more
>> and maybe better tools and documentation for Windows and Unix.
>
>I must admit that I cannot follow this.
>
>VMS system management is old and it shows.
>

Better late than never 😊

<https://vmssoftware.com/products/webui/>
<https://vmssoftware.com/openkits/i64opensource/VSI-I64VMS-WEBUI-V0400-2-1-RELEASE-NOTES.PDF>

[snip..]


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com




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