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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robert_nsu Apr 9, 2015 View on HN

Umm... Haven't you ever heard of Xenix?

icedchai Mar 30, 2022 View on HN

I think OpenVMS did this... in the 80's.

usr1106 Oct 1, 2022 View on HN

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

PaulHoule Sep 18, 2023 View on HN

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)

hulitu May 12, 2021 View on HN

Were there any graphics terminals for MULTICS ?

icedchai Aug 14, 2022 View on HN

You could try DEC Ultrix. (Oh, did you mean a modern system?)

KingOfCoders Sep 17, 2021 View on HN

Sadly too young for systems before this VAX!

tapland Dec 27, 2021 View on HN

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

AnthonyMouse Feb 29, 2016 View on HN

Unix and VMS are both from the 70s.

VAX was the hardware, VMS was one of the OSs that could run on it.