[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/25/2023 9:03 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-08-25, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2023-08-25 14:18, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> It has now become _very_ clear to me that the use of ALGOL-based languages
>>> in OS development was very seriously widespread by the time DEC came to
>>> design VMS. Pity DEC didn't join them.
>>
>> Including Multics. Not an outstanding success exactly...
>> Most companies that went that way early was way less successful than
>> DEC, so it is kindof strange to claim that DEC did it wrong and they did
>> it right...
>>
> 
> In way too many cases, marketing success (at least in the short term,
> and sometimes in the longer term) doesn't appear to be related to
> technical elegance.
> 
> After all, we all use Windows...
> 
> OTOH, Unix with its portable HLL approach, has outlasted VMS...

VMS still exist.

If we limit Unix to kernel of Unix origin then I don't see it as
unrealistic that VMS outlast Unix.

Tru64 is dead. HP-UX is practically dead. Solaris is close to dead.
AIX is not well. And FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD seem to increasingly
get status of hobby OS for enthusiasts.

Arne