Umm guys I believe that VMS is still alive... albeit somewhat diminished. Apparently it seems to have found refuge in real time systems and the military. I believe that the Tiwai Point pot-lines are run using a VMS real time system.
And I'm sorry but I do not mourn it's loss in "normal" systems it was a seriously weird OS. "set default" to change directory was weird and also there was a maximum depth of 7 in a directory structure when I last looked. Regards, Zane On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Brett Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah. I really enjoyed the bidirectional-linking inherent in it. > Was reasonably straightforward to learn and was way ahead of Win3.11 at the > time! > Like you, I think it's a pity MS got it rather than a Unix company. > > > > On 27/09/2010 8:49 a.m., John Carter wrote: > > Sigh! It wasn't a bad system VMS. > > Sadly enough the next gen system was canned, and the team working on it was > absorbed by the microsoft borg. (The Good Bits about Windows NT internals > came from them.) > > I still tend to put a symlink on my systems from "x" to emacs, out of a VMS > xedit engendered habit of saying "x fileName.c" whenever I want to edit a > file. > > I always thought it a pity that team hadn't been absorbed by one of the > *nix companies. > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 18:16 +1300, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: >> > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:13:46 Steve Holdoway wrote: >> > > When I worked for Philips Medical Systems, we used VMS, but that was >> for >> > > the bodyscanners. >> > >> > How long ago was that? >> > >> ...seems like only yesterday, but was in fact 1985-7 (: >> >> > -- > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [email protected] > New Zealand > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected]http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 5481 (20100926) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > http://www.eset.com > > > > -- > Regards, > > Brett Davidson > Systems Engineer > RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE, TC(Electronics) > > -- > Net24 Limited > Phone: 0800 5000 24 | DDI: +64 3 962 9518 | Web: www.net24.co.nz > -- > > // web hosting / email hosting / data backup / VPS > > This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential > information. If you have received this transmission in error, please > delete it and notify the sender. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > -- ------------------------------------------- Zane Gilmore
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