[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?
Phillip Helbig undress to reply
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
Fri Oct 14 11:22:13 EDT 2022
In article <ti9vpf$1sfgh$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes:
> Den 2022-10-13 kl. 19:09, skrev John Dallman:
> > 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?
I still use it for essentially all computer-related stuff, though sadly
except for much browser-related stuff these days.
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