On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Zane Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Any OS that can successfully handle real time operations should be respected :-) http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202801794 lists a few interesting users, including Amazon.com. > 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. http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/VMStoUNIX.html may help you out, should you encounter it again :-) I built some very large backup set managers in the 'shell' language DCL, assisted by the fantastic paper documentation sets -- fully cross-referenced man pages for everything, with better/more consistent references than anything the web people managed for many years (probably managed as SGML, given the background of the company, but I don't have any evidence for that). I saw the documentation for VMS v5 being delivered -- a full palette being carried in by forklift truck. You needed a very very large bookcase for them. Impressive and useful stuff. Lots of ring binders, each with their own hard case so they could be stored properly. Each major version was a different colour -- IIRC v5 was orange There were a lot of security levels available, not the all-or-nothing root or user we are used to in Unix. There were also some interesting ways to escalate privs from what the sysadmin thought were restricted. And some of the best-known default passwords ... SYSTEM/MANAGER and FIELD/ENGINEER amongst them. -jim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
