[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/7/2024 1:13 PM, chrisq wrote:
> On 5/7/24 13:50, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 5/7/2024 8:45 AM, chrisq wrote:
>>> Back on topic, who remembers the dec advfs  for Tru64 ?. Never
>>> actually used it, but what were it's advantages / usp ?...
>>
>> SpiraLog may be even more on topic ...
>>
>> :-)
> 
> Had never even heard of it, needed to look it up :-). Will have a
> look later, but good report in the Digital Tech Journal,
> volume 8, section 2, 1996. Load of other interesting reports there
> as well.

I remembered it.

The demise of SpiraLog and the Snapshot Services thing in many
ways marked VMS changing from frontrunner to legacy.

> It'a quite amazing, looking back to just how much effort digital and
> others put into basic research. Stuff some take for granted now,
> all the great books have been written etc, but just how many
> don't even notice and continue to make the same mistakes over and
> over again ?...

DEC did a lot of research. Was it 4 major research centers they had?
WRL and 3 more?

So did IBM.

Today it is Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft that does that
type of stuff.

One need to make a lot of money to be able to support
such long term research.

Arne