[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

Dan Cross cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net
Thu Nov 3 14:32:13 EDT 2022


In article <tk0r9u$1f47k$1 at dont-email.me>,
Chris Townley  <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>On 03/11/2022 13:26, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-11-02, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>> And I don't believe in the unique killer feature
>>> idea at all - such get copied very quickly.
>>>
>> 
>> It took a quarter of a century for clustering on other operating systems
>> to catch up to VMS clustering.
>
>Has it actually caught up?

This is a definitional question.  Other systems
took a different tack, where "clustering" happens
at a higher level (e.g., an RDBMS or something).
In that sense, not only have they caught up, but
they've surpassed what VMS does.

	- Dan C.




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