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

Phil Howell phow9917 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 02:02:55 EST 2022


On Friday, 14 October 2022 at 4:09:34 am UTC+11, John Dallman wrote:
> In its glory days of the 1980s, VMS got used for all sorts of technical 
> computing and business IT. 
> 
> My employers used it as a software development system, producing 
> mathematical modelling code for VMS, plus a wide range of other platforms. 
> Demand for the code on VMS shrank in the 1990s, and it became expensive 
> compared to doing development on Windows. We had dropped it by the year 
> 2000. We'd resume support if there was significant demand for it on 
> x86-64, which is why I joined this newsgroup. 
> 
> What do you use VMS for in the 2020s? 
> 
> John
Read this (and weep?)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/17/asx_blockchain_reading_project_paused/
Phil



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