VAX/VMS Nostalgia
Comments reminisce about 1970s-1990s operating systems and hardware like VAX/VMS, Xenix, MULTICS, PDP-11/10, and mainframes, sharing personal experiences and historical trivia about these legacy systems.
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Umm... Haven't you ever heard of Xenix?
I think OpenVMS did this... in the 80's.
Looks like it has been running for 20 years and is community operated? From the headline I misinterpreted this to be a commercial cloud.I used VAX/VMS and VM370/CMS in the 80s. I have fond memories of VAX/VMS and still log in to the machine at the computer museum to play dungeon. Would also program Lisp or so, but have not figured out how to transfer files.For IBM my feelings are more mixed. The VM side was certainly what the rest of the world got only 30 years later. The CM
How about people who remember RSTS/E or VM/CMS? (Guess we all switched to POSIX or Windows since those are the only games in town)
Were there any graphics terminals for MULTICS ?
You could try DEC Ultrix. (Oh, did you mean a modern system?)
Sadly too young for systems before this VAX!
Oh I connect to a VMS-system for work daily until new year (then we're getting replaced and I'm off to find something more modern, I guess)! VMS is a delight. So much more pleasant for the user than the IBM-boxes, but I do have very specific VAX-based systems in mind! Though, the example is a mish mash of that and what I've seen lately from customers running AS/400s.But in both cases it's "awesome cool new user interfaces" made some time in the past to try t
Unix and VMS are both from the 70s.
VAX was the hardware, VMS was one of the OSs that could run on it.