huh...???
Posted on 01/10/2006 10:17:04 AM PST by SirLinksalot
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I started out on the Control Data 6000 series and spent 16 years writing assembly language code on nearly all of their mainframes and super computers. Replaced several IBM and VAX systems with Cybers. I also wrote microcode on some of CDCs exotic computers as well. My division of CDC was bought by General Dynamics.
and that's in the 10+ years that we were primarily VAX in the data center.
If you have an old VAX or Alpha--or buy one on EBay--you can get a VMS hobbyist license for free. If I were looking for another time sink, that's what I'd do.
Of course it's not, it's over at AMD with 1GHz coherent hypertransport. :-)
True but you can't run a real OS on AMD, That would rock if HP would port VMS to AMD
IBM PC Support/Client Access tossed in with Netware and an IP stack.
You could make it work...but good luck running anything resembling an application afterwards.
*shudder*
our 11785 got struck by lightening(!) and burned out seven of eight back plane boards. the eighth blew a few weeks later. a few swaps later, we were back in business.
I used to mess with it on weekends when few were about. had tons of fun with it. managed to create command files for each class of users, removing commands and/or switches we didnt' want those users to have. nobody figured out how we did it.
VMS was fun!
My school bought one of the few DECSystem 20's when I was graduating. I developed code on a PDP 11/70 running
Xenix. We went with VAXs a couple of years later, but everybody aliased the VAX commands to the less cumbersome Unix set.
December 17, 1983; installed and configured my (then) company's foray into RS2732. Hooked up the phone line and swapped files with another PDP in Salt Lake City.
I was hooked! I've been surfing the internet since 1983.
A real O/S? I suppose that's true if you're not counting all the various 64-bit flavors of xNIX. 64-bit VMS native on an eight-way Opteron machine would be a religious experience, IMO.
The NT project was headed by one of the main VMS engineers, whom Microsoft had lured from Digital. Unfortunately, and we are paying the price to this day, it seemed to have been a rushed project, as it missed some of the key advantages of VMS like the multi-version file system, batching facility, DCL shell, and so on.
Multi-version file system in 1978? Try that on EUNUCHS in 2005! You can pay a fortune for something called ClearCase, which has a specific purpose (code version control) and still misses some of the features of RMS. Some years ago, before I knew anything about ClearCase or similare systems I wrote a code version control program using DCL, several thousand lines of it, logical names, ACLs and other things. It was primitive but it did the job.
Get 'em to send you to the porting bootcamp- whatever that's called. 2 grand, they give you pointers on porting your application, and you get to take the Itanium box home.
LOL_~!
I hope you've gotten a new computer since then...........At least a '286.............
Provably false.
Cutler left DEC before version 4 and clustering came out.
The VMS of today is orders of magnitude greater in terms of capability than it was in those days.
but as far as the VAX itself was concerned, I was sure it would run underwater and shot with a .45 slug.
we replaced them years ago with alpha4100's that were very reliable, but not quite as "unstoppable" as I found the VAX family. now, they are gone, too, and alas, my data center is jam packed with blue Dell servers . . . .
to do the work of 2 alphas :)
And pessimest, I hate to contradict you BUT:
New applications ARE being ported to VMS on Itanium.
huh...???
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